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3152242 ] SPIRITUAL LIGHT. from the Indras and lastly. the merit of being highly raised, even to the rank of a Tirthankara. These forty-two ways are detailed in Karmagranth, . Pāpa :-It is given in the Tattvārthādhigama, Chapter VIII, Sutra 26th, that Punaya, consists of pleasurable feelings, ( Shātā vedaniya) right attitude ( Samyaktva ), joy ( Hasya ), attachment ( Rati ), male sex ( Purushaveda ), longevity. ( Shubha Ayu ), good name, fame ( Shubha Nama ) and high family (Uccha Gotra ). ..
The opposites of each of the above are ( Papa )sịns. The eighteen kinds of sins are destruction of of life, false speech, stealing, unchastity, coveting possessions, anger, conceit, deceit, greed, attachment, repulsion, quarrelsomeness, slander, talebearing, joy, deceitful appearances and false perception by Mithyātva. They are also called the seats or asylums of sins. They are forbidden by the Jain Texts. They bring on physical and psychical pernicious results which are experienced by the doer in eighty-two ways. They are as-five obscurations of knowledge, nine, of coverings of perception, five of obstructions, twentysix kinds of delusion, destructive of peace and equanimity, one bringing in sensations of pain, thirtyfour kinds of name and form, giving physical indivi. quality, one determining the duration of life in hell, one of birth in a low family. Thus one who does sins suffers penalty in the above experiences. One may refer to Karmagrantha for a detailed information qui this subject.
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