Book Title: Gandhi And Jainism
Author(s): Shugan C Jain
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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________________ 81 Sankhāejīviyamceva, kammunā u tiuttai.5. The two types of Vāhya Parigraha are- Cetana and Jada. Jada Parigrahameans attachments to all lifeless objects such as clothes, house, etc. and Cetan Parigraha means attachments to all living beings such as wife, children, servants, etc. the fourteen types of Abhyāntara Parigrahaare- wrong notion, attachment for sex, laughter, affliction, fear and disgust, four passions of anger, conceit, crookedness and greed and also four stages of these passions of Anantānubandhi. Uttarādhyayana, 9.48 "If there were numberless mountains of gold and silver as big as mount Kailash, they would not satisfy any avaricious man; for avarice is boundless like the sky." Dulichand Jain, Universal Message of Lord Mahavira (Varanasi: Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, 2005), p.17 Sthānānga, op. cit., 4.1.266 Dr. Kamala Jain, Aparigrah-The Human Solution, (Varanasi: Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, 1998), p.64 Dr. Kamala Jain, The concept of Panchashila in Indian Thought, (Varanasi: Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, 1983), p.231 The three characteristics of the Arihanta / Tirthankara are total detachment, omniscient and delivering the sermons of spiritual beneficence. Ācārya Sivārya, Bhagvati Ārādhanā, 873-876 (Solapur: Shri Jain Sanskriti Sanrakshak Sangh, 2006), pp. 514-515 Desire for women, eating stimulating food, use the bed of females, to look at the beautiful parts of women, to show extraordinary respect to women, to offer gifts due to lust for them, to reminiscence old acts of lust, to look forward to acts of lust in future, use stimulating things like scents, garden, cloths etc, and to develop wrong habits or inclinations in one's own organs. RKS, Samantabhadra, 3.13-14, op. cit., pp. 134-136 Quote of Romain Rolland, http://www.veganworldnetwork.org/topics ahimsa.php, accessed on 17 January 2014 Dr. H. C. Bharill, "Tirthankar Bhagwan Mahaveer", http://www.jainworld.com/education/tat8.asp, accessed on 17 January 2014. 91 Gandhi & Jainism Pg. 269

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