Introduction to Jainsim

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

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JAINISM
(40) To be born and worshipped by Indra on the Meru mountain,
(41) Worship of the to-be Teerthankar by the Indras. (42) Heir-apparentship. (43) Empire.
(44) Acquisition of the Chakra i..e, the nine stores and the fourteen jewels,
(45) Starting for universal conquest. (46) Celebration of the conquest, (47) Proper regulation of the subsidiary kings.
(48) Giving over the empire to the son and becoming an ascetic.
(49) To attain absolute knowledge. (50) Raising up of the Samara Saran.. (51) Preaching the truth by the Teerthankar. (52) Drawing the soul into itself. (53) Final Deliverance. This is the progress of the layman to Moksla.
Now a few words about asceticism, which comes after the The Jain Monk eleventh stage of laymanship. Ascetic has to possess twenty-eight Primary Qualities, namely, the five great Voirs (the Anuvritas in a stricter form ), the five Samitis, the six necessaries beginning with Samayika, abandonment of the objects of the five senses, throwing off clothes, drawing out the heir with one's own hands, one meal a day, standing up while taking his meal, eating the food taken only in the palms of the hands, non-bathing and non-rubbing of thc teeth. The secondary qualities of an ascetic are eighty four lacks and they may be referred to in special works on the subject. But their absence