Doctrines of Jainism

Author(s): Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi Godiji Jain Derasar Mumbai

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JAINISM AND THE WAY TO SPIRITUAL REALIZATION*
Dr. INDRA CHANDRA SHASTRI, M.A., Ph.D.
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CCORDING to Jainism there are five types of sleep which are the effects of Darsanavaraniya: Nidraordinary sleep; Nidra nidra-sleep so deep that one is not able to open his eyes at once, even when awakened; Pracata-drowsiness; Pracata pracata-heavy drowsiness; and Styanagrdhi-somnambulism: speaking, walking and doing other actions while asleep. An aspirant in the seventh stage is free from the Nidra nidra, Pracata pracata and Styanagrdhi types of sleep.
The aspirant's alertness in the seventh stage is not permanent. It comes and goes according to the fluctuations of the mind. Consequently the aspirant struggles between the sixth and seventh stages. His position is compared with that of a log of wood moving up and down with the rise and fall of the waves.
The eighth Gunasthana is known as Apurva karana. The aspirant in the seventh stage was described as starting his struggle against slippings. He reaches the eighth stage in case he wins the struggle and finds himself fully
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* We publish here the second and last part of the paper this subject prepared by Dr. Indra Chandra Shastri, M.A., Ph.D., and discussed on April 18th, 1954, at the Indian Institute of Culture, Basavangudi, Bangalore, under the chairmanship of Shri M. A. Venkata Rao, M.A. This meeting was one of those arranged jointly by the Institute and the Jain Mission Society, Bangalore, in celebration of Mahavira Jayanti Week.
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