Scientific Foundations Of Jainism

SR No.: 022772
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K V Mardia
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 146
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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THE PATH OF SELF-CONQUEST
Table 7.2.
List of the fifth to eleventh purification stages and the corresponding status.
Stage
Name
Status
Partial Restraint Full Restraint Carelessness Free Unprecedented Spiritual Progress Advanced Spiritual Activity Suppressed Subtle Greed Partially Eliminated Greed
True Jain Layman Monk Spiritual Teacher Spiritual Masters Advanced Masters
Passion less State
called the Partially-Eliminated-Greed State from which one will be forced to move downwards. However, if the Four Passions and their effects are fully eliminated during the trances, so that the degree of greed becomes permanently zero, then one will jump straight from the tenth stage to the twelfth stage—the “Completely Eliminated Greed" state.
7.5 LEVELS TWELVE TO FOURTEEN
On the instant of attaining the twelfth stage, three remaining primary karmic components (other thar. Deluding Karmic Component) are automatically eliminated, leading to the attainment of the thirteenth stage which is the state of omniscience and will be called the “Dynamic Omniscience State". At this stage only yoga governs the remaining activities which are necessary for the physical body to still function. These activities do not, however, lead to new karmons. Also, secondary karmic components of the omniscient being gradually fall off until eventually none of them remain. In the final moments, the body is in a state of total immobility--this state is the "Static Omniscience" stage and is the fourteenth stage4. This state lasts only for the instant prior to moksa. The moment death occurs, the soul, completely and forever freed from the cycle of rebirth, attains moksa. Table 7.3 summarises these details for these higher stages.
Table 7.3. List of the final three purification stages and the their status.
Stage
Name
Status
12.
Completely Eliminated Greed Dynamic Omniscience state Static Omniscience state
Tirthankara Towards Moksa