Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM
Every Jain work asserts that true insight, true koowledge The three and right conduct are the path of Deliverance. Jewels These are the Three Jewels. True insight is faith is the seven principles explained before. It is also defined as True Insight faith in the God who is faultless, omniscient and author of the Scriptures ; in those scriptures that are dictated by such Gods that are consistent with everything, that expound the principles and that refute the false doctrines; and in those Teachers who have abandoned sensual enjoyments, any new work or uonecessary equipment of worldly existence and who are absorbed in the acquisition of wisdom, concentration and True know. penance. True knowledge is such as depicts things ledge as they are, and as is based on faith without doubt ar perversity. Right conduct is a man's observing in action Rien Conduct what he knows and believes through True Faith and Knowledge. This couduct is either complete or incomplete according as a man is an ascetic or a layman. I shall take up the latter first. A man is not a Shravaka (a Jain layman) if A Shravaka he only knows and believes rightly and does not defined yet begin living by that belief or knowledge, which alone entitles him to that position. A Shirayaka is also called a Desh Priti, i.e. one who observes the vows [ rules of conduct ) only partially. He has eleven stages through which he is to rise up.
The first is the Darshan Stage. Here a man must have his The Darshan faith free from the five and twenty faults and must Stage be free from the seven vices, namely, (1) Gambling (2) Flesh-eating (3) Drinking (4) Debauchery (5) Hunting (6) Theft and (7) Defiling other men's wives.
The second is the Vrita Stage. Here the five Anu, the three The Vita Gim and the four Shiksha Vritas or vows have to Stage be observed, without any defects. The first Anu Vrita consists of abandoning in intention killing generally. A
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