ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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13 Avaśyaka Sūtra, Caturtha Adhyayana, Pranipata Sūtra-8
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to run away from the circle of worldly existence. But this centrifugal tendency is thwarted by a centripetal force that keeps the soul tracing the circumference of the world process. The centripetal force consists in the passion of attraction and aversion rooted in perverse attitude.12 To conquer this centripetal force is the purpose of Yoga. The centripetal force is due to perversity and passions and has to be replaced by the centrifugal force which is love for the pure self and a deep spiritual insight.
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The seat of Jaina Yoga is the self, the purpose of it is the purification of the self and the means of purification is the establishment of supremacy and full control by the self on its manifestation that has hitherto been conditioned by the senses and the mind. When the soul is ignorant of its pure state, it suffers from the Gordian knot of intense attachment and aversion. When it comes face to face with this Gordian knot of mithyātva i.e. perversity, it is termed as yathapravṛttikaraṇa. When it breaks the knot and experiences spiritual purification it is termed as apūrvakaraṇa.
Yoga Śästra 1.15
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The soul awakens and becomes self-conscious and this is the state of anivṛttikarana. The soul then enjoys the first dawn of enlightenment or spiritual insight (Samyagdarśana). The journey that begins in the 4th gunasthāna culminates in the 13th guṇasthāna that is sayogakevali-guṇasthāna, where the soul has become omniscient, perfect, pure, without blemish, enlightened and awakened. The three yogas of mind body, and speech are thus transcended and the soul passes through the 14th gunasthāna which is the ayoga-kevaligunasthāna to reach mokṣa which is a state of complete freedom from birth, death, old-age, disease, fear, sorrow, poverty, karmas, body, delusion, perversion, ignorance, passion etc.13 Thus we see that the journey which begins with right faith is nourished through samvara and nirjarā and culminates in the ayoga state. Yoga according to Hemacandra is the cause of final emancipation and consists in the three fold jewels of right knowledge, right attitude and right conduct.14 It is the comprehension of the self in the self by the self on account of disappearance of the eternal delusion.15
15 Ibid 4.2
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