Book Title: Doctrines of Jainism
Author(s): Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi Godiji Jain Derasar Mumbai
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The Doctrines of the Jainas
kammakkhayo kammakkhaya dukkhakkhayo dukkhakkha ya vedanakkhayo vedanakkhaya sabbam dukkham nijjinnam bhavissa titi.1
Here nijjinnam implies the idea of nijjara (nirjara).
Nirjara lies in the wearing out of the accumulated effects of karma on the soul by the practice of austerities. Austerities are internal and external. Internal austerities are the following:
Expiation, veneration, service to saints, concentration, abandonment of bodily attachment and study.2 According Austerities are internal and external. Internal austerities are the following:
Fasting, eating less, sitting and sleeping in a lonely place, mortification of the body, daily renunciation of one or more of the six kinds of delicacies, taking a mental vow to accept food from a householder, if a certain condition is fulfilled.
The ten virtues are the following:
Forgiveness (uttama-ksama), humility (uttama-mardava), honesty (uttama-arjava), purity (uttama-sauca), truthfulness (uttama-satya), restraint (uttama-samyama), austerities (uttama tapas), renunciation (uttama-tyaga), selflessess (uttama-akinchanya) and chaste life (uttamabrahmacharya).
The causes of bondage (bandha) are the following: wrong belief, (2) perverse belief, (3) doubt,
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1. Majjhima, II, p. 214. 2. Uttaradhyayana, XXVIII, 34.
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