Essence Of Jaina Scriptures

SR No.: 022313
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdish Prasad Jain
Publisher: Kaveri Books
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 508
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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BOOK III: THE CONDUCT
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abandoned all upadhi (external possessions as well as internal parigraha of attachment, aversion and passions). Accordingly others also should from the first reject it, like internal negligence, because it does not occur without the same.
"Hereby, if a man reflects upon it, is said all that needs to be said. For the unreflecting, surely, the net of delusion is hard to escape even with the greatest expenditure of words.” (PS Kalash 14)
Now he teaches that rejection of appropriation is in fact rejection of internal negligence:
III.20. Without the absolute renunciation (tyaga) 134 of worldly concerns, devoid of all consideration, regard or expection of any sort (nirvekkho in Pk., nirpeksha in Sk.), there does not take place purification (visuddhi) of mental states (aasaya in Pk., aashaya in Sk.) and when the mind is not purified, how can there be annihilation of karman? (220/1)
Given the existence of connection with an external (negligence), and given rejection of internal (negligence) having the form of impure psychic-attention, as of impurity of rice-grains when husks are present, we do not find only the fundamental pure psychic-attention. Therefore rejection of appropriation, ordained in view of a purpose, namely rejection of an internal negligence, namely impure psychic-attention, is in fact rejection of internal negligence.
Now, enlarging upon appropriation, he teaches that it is invariably internal negligence:
III.21. How can he (who is favourably disposed towards parigraha) be free from infatuation, incidental sins inevitable in worldly activities (arambha) 3 and lack of self-restraint (samyama)? And how one, who is attached to or engrossed in other substance, can realize the real nature of self? (221)
Since, given appropriation, there unavoidably results infatuation, characterized as an evolution of the idea of mine, worldly undertakings, characterized as an evolution through a series of acts having that for object, and lack of self-restraint, characterized as an evolution destructive of the character of pure self,
and since one associated with appropriation, being fond of other “substance," does not attain the pure self, we determine that appropriation is invariably internal negligence. The purport hereof is thit, having determined the nature of appropriation to be such, we