Book Title: Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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________________ 90 Illuminator of Jaina Tenets Lusture V may begin his spiritual career of a samyaktvin with the attainment of right faith characterized by the destruction-cum-subsidence of the faithdeluding karman. The operation in such circumstance has a peculiar feature in that the aspirant divides, by means of the 'unprecedented operation', the deluding karmic matter into three sets (viz., pure, semi-pure and impure) and begins to enjoy the karmic matter of the 'pure set' and thus attains right faith due to destruction-cum-subsidence (of the relevant karmic matter). Some souls, however, destroy the faith-deluding karman absolutely and attain right faith due to the destruction (of the relevant karmans) E. TA-Hànt-faña1-34+91-ssffaqurfa TETET TA:— fra: 1 Ha-HETTI faag:-3771TXT: 1 3779791- FUTTI आस्तिक्यम् -सत्यनिष्ठा। 9. sama-samvega-nirveda-nukampa'stik yani tallaksanam. samaḥ—śāntiḥ. samvegaḥ-mumukšā. nirvedah-anāsakti”. anukampā-karuņā. āstikyam-satya-nişthā. (Aph.) Tranquillity, (fear of transmigration and) desire for salvation (from worldly miseries), detachment, compassion, and spiritual beliefthese constitute the defining characteristics of it (the right faith). (IX) (Gloss) 'Tranquillity' means quiescence (of passions such as anger and the rest). Sarvega means (fear of transmigration and the resultant) desire for final emancipation (from all the worldly miseries). 'Detachment is dispassionateness. "Compassion' means fellow-feeling. Belief' means faith in the reality (of the self, the law of karman and the like.) (Note) Originally the word samvega stood for the fear of transmigration, although in later time it came to mean the desire for spiritual emancipation. In support of the original connotation of the word we refer to the following discussion in the Uttaradhyayana-sutra (XXIX, 1); Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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