Doctrine of Karman in Jain Philosophy

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Vijibai Jivanlal Panalal Charity Fund Mumbai

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to be distinguished. We must therefore not be astonished, if we see later, that the worst lesyās are still occurring in very high states of psychical development, when partial or complete self-discipline have already been attained. The leśyas characterise only the general tendency of a soul, without the described passions necessarily being exhibited in such a pronounced manner.
THE DOCTRINE OF KARMAN
Finally, it is still worth mentioning that a being at its birth has in the beginning the leśya which it possessed at its death in the preceding existence (" jallese maraï tallese uvavajjaï" Kg. I, 117 b); later on, the lesya can change.
The holy men have no more yoga, and the Siddhas have no leśyā.
5. BELIEF (darśana).
Kg. I, 112 b et seq.; P. 27; Lp. III, 596 et seq.; Tattv. I, 2 et seq.
True belief is the unshakable conviction of the absolute truth of the doctrines of the Jain religion. The samyag-darśana is an essential quality of the jiva. In consequence of the assimilation of mohaniyakarman, true belief has completely disappeared; if the karman is hindered in its efficiency in smaller or greater measure, true belief appears in a smaller or greater dimension; if the karman is completely annihilated, the absolute true belief manifests itself in its completeness.
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From complete unbelief to complete true belief 6 kinds of belief are possible :
1. mithyātva, the non-belief in the doctrine of Mahāvīra and the belief in false doctrines. There are 5 species of it (Kg. I, 149 a; Gandhi 54):
(a) äbhigrahika, produced by believing a certain false doctrine to be true.
(b) anabhigrahika, produced, without acceptance of a certain false doctrine, by apathy and indifference.
(c) abhiniveśika produced by obstinate predilection for something which is estimated to be false.
(d) samśayika produced by doubt.
(e) anābhoga caused by deficient judgment", i.e. by the incapability of accepting the truth.1
2. sāsvādana-samyaktva "a taste of the true belief". This is a feeling of the true belief, lasting only for a few moments, which soon gives place to unbelief. The name is explained in the following
manner :
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1 ābhoga = sūkṣmudṛṣṭi according to a communication by Professor Jacobi.