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COMPENDIUM OF JAINISM
belief on understanding the satisfactory exposition of the tenets by right kind of teachers; if it deos not, it slips into wrong beliefs.
In this stage, the person possesses the right belief but not the conduct in strict conformity with it. He has not bound himself by vows to abstain from indulgence in sense-enjoyments (indriya samyama) and from hurting the living beings (prāņa-samyama). He is compassionate, calm, fearful of mundane existence (samvega) and truthful. He does not hurt anybody without provocation. He is able to control excessive passions of anger, pride, deceit and greed. He is prone to these passions in moderate degrees, but he has faith in the right doctrines.
5) Deśa-virata (Partial vows)
A person in this stage is able to exercise greater degree of self-control than the one in the previous stage. This stage is called the stage of partial-vow because due to the operation of vow-preventing-passions (pratyakhyānāvarana kaşāya), there is the absence of perfect control. There is the partial destructions and partial subsidence of the Karmas binding the soul due to passions. Here, there is the operation (udaya) of that kind of karmic matter which forms such passions as prevent the vows only partially.5 The person in this stage has the necessary spiritual disposition and exerts for further development. He observes the rules of Right Conduct only partially due to lack of complete control. This is a stage where, apart from the spiritual progress, emphasis is laid on conduct, that is, observing those rules which are enjoi ned by the scriptures. It is here that the eleven Pratimās get included.
Since he is right believer, he will control his passions and not commit unnecessary sins. He will not kill the mobile beings. He would not also unnecessarilly kill the immobile beings. Since he is wholly devoted to the Jina, he is both vowful and vowless (virata-avirata). This is so because if he kills the mobile beings, he would be a person without faith in the teachings of Jina.
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