Fundamentals Of Jainism

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Bharti

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FUNDAMENTALS OF JAINISM
less-ness, back-biting, despising virtuous men, and the like. The sexpassion peculiar to women is caused by becoming deeply attached to another man's wife, and by developing habits of thought and traits of character peculiar to women; the male sex-passion by milder forms of anger and greed. by sexual purity and by having no desire for the embellishment of one's body; and the neuter sexpassion by the intensity of the four kinds of passions (anger, pride, deceit and greed) castration unnatural gratification of sexual lust, imputation of unchastity to a chaste and virtuous woman and by madly falling in love with the married spouse of another,
The causes of the specific energies of the four kinds of ayuh karma are those which determine the duration of the association of the taijasa and the karmana shariras with the body of gross matter. This depends on the quality of the material of the outer body and on the nature of its association with the other two, and is ultimately traceable to the good or bad Karmas of the java himself.
Of the four kinds of ayuḥ karma, the first namely deva ayuḥ, depends on the vaik riyaka sarira of devas which results from pure thoughts and actions, such as observance of vows, non-injuring, truthfulness, chastity, non-stealing and non-attachment. According to the Scripture no one who has already engendered the ayuh karma of life in hells (naraka ayuh) can have sufficient strength of will left to observe the five vows of a Jaina house-holder. The second, i.e. manushya ayuḥ is the fruit of actions of a midding type, such as partial control of senses, desires, passions, and the like.
The third, or the animal form of life, is forced on the soul in consequence of a slavery to senses, regardless of the means employed for their gratification. Sensual Just, deceit the preaching of falsehood for procuring livelihood, excessive grief, intense aversion to any particwar being or thing, giving free reins to imagination to dwell upon the details of past or expected future experiences of sexual and other kinds of bodily pleasures, and praying for future prosperity to indulge in the delights of senses to the full, are some of the causes that lead to re-birth in the animal kingdom, and determine the longevity of the different types of animal life.
The fourth kind of ayuḥ, i e., that peculiar to the residents of hells, is the consequence of the worst forms of falsehood, parigraha