Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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JAINISM IN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. (Continued from page 127, No. 4, Vol. XXIII.) Q 92. Describe Dharma.
A. Dharma or observance is of ten kinds. They are Forgiveness, Humility, Honesty, Contentment, Truth, Restraint, Austerities, Renunciation, non-attachment, and chastity. All these are of the highest degree (utlama).
Q. 93. What are Anuprekshas ?
A. Anupreksha is repeated reflection in mind on the nature of things. A man on the right path should repeatedly think of (1) the transitoriness of worldly things, (2) unprotectiveness of the soul, (3) inundaneness, (4) Loneliness, (5) separateness, (6) the impure nature of the body and other worldly things, (7) inflow of karmic matter into the soul, (8) stoppage of karmic matter, (9) shedding of karmic matter, (10) the nature of the Universe and its constituent elements, (11) the difficulty of attaining right faith, right knowledge and right conduct, and (12) the nature of the Right Path to Moksha.
Q. 94. What is meant by Parishaba-Jaya?
A. Parishaha-Jaya is the subduai of sufferings that may come to a person on the path of Liberation.
Q. 95. What are those sufferings ?
A. The sufferings are twenty-two and arise from hunger, thirst, cold, heat, insect bites, nakedness, languor, women, walking toy much, sitting, sleeping, abuse, beating, begging, failure to get alms, disease. con'act with thorny
orubs dis comfort from dus!, respect or disrespect, conceit of knowledge, lack of knowledge, and from slack belief.
Of these 22 sufferings only 19 can be possible to a saint at one and the same time : becaus, heat and cold cannot co-exist in the same way as the saint cannot be sitting, walking and sleeping at the same time.
Q. 96. What are these sufferings due to?
A. Conceit and lack of knowledge are caused by the operation of knowledge-obscuring Karmas; slack belief by right-belief-deluding Karma; failure to get alms by obstructive Karma ; sufferings arising from nakedness, lanquor, women, sitting, abuse, beggirig, respect and disrespect are due to right conduct deluding Karma ; and the rest are caused by Vedaniya Karmas. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat