Introduction to Jainism

Author(s): A B Latthe
Publisher: Natha Rangaji

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An Account of tree does to a man travelling in the hot sun. Alas! is the space in which all things exist. kir? is that through which things grow new and alter.
Asrava is the third principle. It is defined as “ what forms the inlet för ausp cious and ominous Karmans.” These inlets are opened in The Asra. the case of the soul when it feels love vas. or hatred for whatever it sees or knows through its seeing or knoiving power ( D:2 zyan or Darshan ) just as water is let into the boat through its holes. When the soul feels its love or hatred rightly, the Asrava is an “ Auspicious ( Shubha ) Asrava ”and when wrongly, it is “ Ominous ( Ashubh2 ) Asrava.” The soul is either in an“ auspicious ” or “ unauspicious ' or “pure” state. The first is superior to the second; but it is not capable of carrying the soul to Moksha as it is cainted with passions, which being of an auspicious naturu may at the most lead to the heavens in after life or th3 emincnce of a Chakravarii (Emperor ) in this