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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The word. Indra means 'one who has excellent wealth ': it thus means the soul which is possessed of incomparable attainments. 'Indriya' is that which is a mark, a sign or an instrument of Indra, the soul. The Indriyas are thus the organs of knowledge, the instruments, that is to say by means of which the soul acquires knowledge. The Indriyas are primarily divided into two classes viz., Dravyendriya or material organ and Bhavendrila or subjective organ. Niruritti and Upakarana are the two sub-classes of the former ; each of these two again has two parts or aspects respectively called the Vahya or external and Antara or internal. Nirvritti is that part of the sense-organ which is operative in the matter of the generation of knowledge and Upakarana is that which protects Nirvritti, the main or the principal part of the sense-organ. When on account of the annihilation or the mitigation of knowledge-enveloping Karma, a part (Pradesa) of the Soul is purified, it (i.e., the purified part of the soul) assumes the shape of the sense-organs e.g., the Eye ete. This purified part of the soul which thus assumes the form of the sense-organ, is the Antara-Nirorilli. The limb or the part of the physical body in which is located the Antara-Nirvritti is called the Vahya-Nirurilti. The substance called the Upakarana which exists inside and protects the Nirvritti aspect of the Indriya, is the Antara Upakarana; the black, the white fields etc. which are within the eyes are, for example, the AntaraUpakarana. The Vahya-Upakarana is thɔse parts of the senseorgan which exist outside and protect it for example, the Eyehairs, the Eye-lids etc. The Antara-Nirvritti, the VahyaNirvritti, the Antara-Upakarana and the Vahya-Upakarana are all modes of the Dravyendriya or material sense-organ; for, these are but the modes of the soul (Alma) and Matter (Pudgala). Labdhi and Upayoga are the two aspects of the Bhavendriya or the subjective sense-organ. Labdhi is the gain, on the part of the soul, consisting in the annihilation and the mitigation of the knowledge-obscuring Karma. Upayoga consists in the soul's modification into consciousness or attention. When the knowledge-enveloping Karma is annihilated and mitigated, the soul is possessed of Labdhi; on account of this Labdhi, the soul
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