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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. actualisation of Samvara which if not cultivated with propriety and judiciousness cannot put a stop to the incessant influx of karmamatter into the constitution of the jiva.
Next comes the Parishahas or endurance of hardships without which no one can expect to attain to a thing ; for work implies not only waste but endurance as well. A mumukshin soul must ever be prepared to gladly endure all sorts of hardships as consequent on the strain and struggle he has been voluntarily undergoing for the realisation of the Highest Good. The Jain sages have classified in their own ways these various forms of hardships into twenty-two kinds, viz ;
(1) Kshutparisaha or endurance of hardship consequent on hunger, (2) on thirst (trisha), (3) cold (shita), (4) heat (ushna), (5) insect bite (dansha mashaka), (6) nakedness (achela) i.e. tattered rag, (7) on unfavourable environment (arati), (8) on the presence of the opposite sex, (9) on constantly shifting from place to place (charya); (10) on the disadvantages arising from abiding by the rules of conduct in a particular quarter
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