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Mluminator of Jaina Tenets
[ Lustre VI nivýttiðādara-jīvasthānāt śreņidvayam jāyate--upaśamaśreņiḥ kṣapakaśreñiś ca.
(Aph.) (There are two ladders of ascent to higher states viz.) "repressing" and "extirpating”. (XII)
(Gloss) A pair of ladders originates from the eighth state (viz. nivrtti-bādara)-the ladder of repression and the ladder of extirpation.
(Note) See note on aph. 13. १३. सत्संज्वलनसूक्ष्मलोभांशः सूक्ष्मसंपरायः। 13. satsaṁjvalana sūkşmalobhāṁśaḥ sūkamasamparāyaḥ.
(Aph.) A soul possessed of subtle passion is one in which there still persists a trace of subtle greed of 'flaming up' type. (XIII)
(Note) The seventh state as already noted is the state of meditation (dhyana) where remissness is totally absent. In the states that follow, the passions (kaşāyas), coarse and subtle, are gradually either repressed or extirpaled. At the eighth state two different courses of development of spiritual progress are open to the soul. These are the ladders of 'repression' and 'extirpation'. These courses are determined by the past spiritual life of the soul at the time of his acquisition of the right vision. If the vision was due to the subsidence of the faith-deluding karman, the soul necessarily selects the ladder of repression. But if the first vision was due to the destruction, both the courses are open to him. In other words, such soul is free to proceed on either of them. The soul possessed of right vision due to the subsidence-cumdestruction is not able to go beyond the seventh gunasthāna. 1
In the eighth state, the coarse passions are repressed or extirpated. Of the nine no-kaşayas the following six are repressed or extirpated at this state : joking, liking, disliking, sorrow, fear and disgust. Of the principal kaşayas only the 'flaming up' ones persist.
In the ninth state, the remaining three no-kaşayas viz. the three sexes, as well as the 'flaming up' anger, pride, and deceitfulness are also repressed or extirpated. 1 Pañcasamgraha, Vol. I, p. 115, Mehsana, 1971. 2 The quasi-passions are nine in number viz. (i) joking (häsya), (ii) liking for non
restraint (rati), (iii) disliking for restraint (arati), (iv) sorrow (soka), (v) fear (bhaya), (vi) disgust (jugupsä), (vii) masculine sex-passions (puruşa-veda), (viii) feminine sex-passions (strī-veda), and (ix) dual sex-passions (napumsaka-veda). These are quasi-passions, because they subsist with the passions (kaşāya) and are inspired by them.
The ancient categorization of passions was into attachment (råg::) and aversion (dveşa). Of the nine quasi-passions, the first two and the last three are based on • råga and the others on dveşa. Sexuality is a variety of råga which has a very wide
connotation, the subtlest expression of it being the 'flaming up greed which is the last passion to be repressed or extirpated by the spiritual aspirant,
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