Fundamentals Of Jainism

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

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FUNDAMANTALS OF JAINISM
meditation (sukla dhyana.) Some of the no-kashầyas got rid of in this stage.
(9) Anivritti karaņa (advanced thought activity). This is a more advanced stage than the preceding one.
(10) Sukshma samprâya (sukshma= very slight + sâmprava =conflict, hence struggle to control the kashayas or delusion). Only the slightest form of greed, which is also fully under control, remains to be eradicated in this stage.
(11) Upasantamoha (upasanta, from upasama=quiescence + moha=delusion). This stage arises from the subsidence of the energies of the mohaniya karma.
(12) Kshina moha (destruction of delusion). Complete eradication of the mohaniya karma is the chief characteristic of this stage. It should be pointed out here that the path bifurcates at the end of the seventh stage, onc route lying along what is known as upaśama śreni (upašama=subsided or quiescent, and śreni=flight of steps, hence ascent) and the other along the kshayaka (eradicative). The former path finds its culmination in the cleventh stage, that is the total suppression, but not destruction, of the mohaniya karmas; but the other which is trodden by those who are not content with the mere subsidence of karmic energies, and who, rejecting half measures, proceed by destroying the enemy' once for all and for ever, is the high road to ņirvana. Those who follow it pass directly from the tenth to the twelfth stage, and, acquiring omniscicnce as the reward of their unyielding, unflinching asceticism, reach the Supreme Scat. The saint who reaches the upasanta moha stage falls back to a lower one, and keeps on travelling backwards and forwards between the first and the eleventh station on the line till he is able to gird up his loins to tread the more trying and difficult kshayaka path.
(13) Sayoga kevali (sa=with, yoga, the three channels or activity, i.e., mind, speech and body, and kevali=omniscient). This is the stage of jivana mukti, characterised by the total destruction of the four kinds of ghâtiâ karmas, but indicating the association with the physical body due to the operation of certain aghatiâ prakritis. Those who evolve out the tirthamkara prakriti become the Master (tirthamkara) who reveals the true dharma