Arhat Vachan 2002 01

SR No.: 526553
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Anupam Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 108
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Arhat Vachan, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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bonding of karmic aggregates with the living through its physical and psychological activities. However, the pure living has a longing for karmic decontaminations. Thus, we have:
Worldly Living Pure living being (soul) + Karma (Body etc.) Worldly living Karmas Pure living or liberated soul.
The aim of human life is to attain or create the state of (vii) ultimate happiness or liberation by zeroing the sufferings of the birth cycles or increasing the content of happiness.
4. Formulary of Precepts:
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Or,
(a) Happiness and Religiosity This happiness, H, results in proportion to (v) loosening and stopping and (vi) shredding of karmic bondage throuh physical or psychological processes of abstention and austerities. The (vii) ultimate happiness is the last stage of human exaltation which could also be designated as Religiosity, R, or
Ha R
The happiness is acquired by following the rationalistically coordinated path of gem-trio of right faith, knowledge and conduct in comparison to 1 or 2-way path.
(b) Passions/Desires and Happiness The human world abounds in physical or psychological desires, D, ambitions, attachments, aversions, attainments etc. all forms of delusion-collectively called passions, P. These may be good or bad, limited and unlimited in numbers. The bad and, therefore, undesirable passions lead to sufferings. In fact, the world is a play-ground of passions resulting in a mixture of pleasurs and pains. The religious path leads to minimising pains/passions to zero and maximising the pleasures (happiness) to infinity. Mathematically, one could say that passions, Por desires, D are directly proportional to pains, W and inversly proportional to happiness, H. One could, thus, express:
Da Pa W HaRa 1/P a 1/WW.
or,
(c) World as a Cyclic Whirlpool The world is assumed to be a cyclic whirlpool. The centrifugal forces of passions and possessions are working upon it for strengthening the rebirth-cycles. In contrast, observance of vows and austerities are working against it to counteract the above process. It is clears that until the centrifugal forces have exceeded the quantum of centripetal forces, no ultimate happiness or salvation will crystalize. Hence, for happiness:
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Arhat Vacana, 14(1), 2002