Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19

SR No.: 524019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 88
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, Canada_Jinamanjari, & Canada
File Size: 5 MB

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A. It is the rising of infatuation in the form of normal copulation or sex activity. It is also said in the GJ, verse 272 in this way: “The living being or soul performs many follies due to the normal or premature fruition of karma due to veda. Accordingly, experiences or the feelings due to the fruition of this activity is termed as veda.”
Q. What is the definition of kaşāya (passion)? A. It is the agency which is instrumental in ploughing, tilling and seeding the field of karma which produces various types of grains of pleasure and displeasure. It is also said in the GJ, verse 282 in this way: “Kaşāya is defined as the agency which ploughs the field of karma producing many types of grains of sorrow and happiness and whose boundary is very large and far away (in terms of birth cycles).
Q. What is the definition of jnāna (knowledge) ? A. It is defined as specific energy or capacity which enlightens about true realities and through which living being learns about the reals and realities along with their attributes and modes. The GJ, verse 299 defines it in this way: “It is an agency through which the living being perceives or learns all about all the three-time existing reals, their attributes and modes directly or indirectly.”
Q. What is the definition of sanyama (restraint ) ? A. It is defined as the process of accepting and observing vows and carefulness, control of passions, renunciation of all types of violence and winning over the senses or sense objects. Verse 465 in the GJ also defines it as: “It is the process of accepting five major vows - ahimsa, satya, nonstealing and aparigraha; observance of five carefulness in walking, talking, food-intakes, picking and placing and excretions; control of four passions - anger, pride, deceit and greed; renunciation of mental, vocal and physical weapons of himsa; winning over of five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.”
Q. What is the definition of darśana (conation)? A. It is defined as internally oriented vision or enlightenment of consciousness. In contrast, the knowledge is defined as the externally oriented enlightenment of consciousness.
Q. The term cit (consciousness) is defined as the experiencing of the nature of the self-soul in accordance with the karmic destruction-cumsubsidence. In contrast, the term prakāśa (enlightenment) is defined as
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