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Syntropy 2013 (2): 243-279
ISSN 1825-7968
Table 3. Different stage of consciousness as discussed in Jainism Number
of
stages
Name of stage
Degree of order
14
13 12 11
10
Ultimately highest Highest Very Very high Very high High Quite highly ordered Intermediately ordered Medium ordered Some more order Some order
09
Ayogi kevali Sayogi kevali Kshina mohniya Upshant mohniya Sukshma Sampraya Nivrati-Badar Apramat Sayant Pramat Sayant Virta virat (Deshvirati)
irati) Avirat Samyagya dristhi Mithyatatva Dristhi (Mishra) Slightly ordered Samyagya Sasvadan Mithyatatva
07 06 05
03
02 01
Low chaos Lowest chaos Complete chaos
Guna means characteristics and sthan means a position or situation. It is very interesting to know that the Jain acharyas have gone into great depth to describe these fourteen stages. They are being described through twenty nine parameters. (Pokharna 2012). The logic used in taking up so many parameters is highly impressive and there are several subcategories among these twenty nine categories also. An excellent description is given about the movement of a worldly soul from one birth to another and so on. With each stage of development, the knowledge content of soul goes up and
17. Comparison between the Darwin's principle of evolution and Jain's concept of evolution:
After defining two types of evolutions in details, we need to compare the two.
Darwin's principle is based on an emphasis on differences among species. Jainism on the other hand first look at the underlying identity of all the species and claims that the soul is the underlying identity among all the biological species.
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