Istopadesa The Golden Discourse

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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Iṣṭopadeśa - The Golden Discourse
- the subtle karmic matter (dravya karma), the psycho-physical karmic matter (bhava karma), and the quasi-karmic matter (particles of matter fit for the three kinds of bodies and the six kinds of completion and development) (nokarma) - and that the subtle karmic matter and the body building karmic matter are its constituent parts, it remains lacking in discriminatory knowledge.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Acharya Kundkund's Samayasara", Vikalp Printers, p. 12-13.
The pure soul with right knowledge neither assimilates nor renounces the karmas; the soul vitiated by wrong knowledge assimilates and renounces the karmas. Karmas and their fruits are material and hence other than the soul. While stationed in the midst of karmas, the man of discrimination is not soiled by the karma-dirt.
As infatuation caused by attachment to possessions (parigraha), internal and external, gets vanquished, and as the mind becomes steady through constant practice, one becomes capable of meditating on the pure soul.
Ten kinds of external possessions and fourteen kinds of internal possessions are said to be the causes of infatuation. The external possessions are (1) land, (2) houses, (3) gold, (4) silver, (5) cattle, (6) grain, (7) maid-servants, (8) male-servants, (9) clothes, and (10) utensils.
The fourteen internal possessions are (1) wrong belief, (2) malesex passion, (3) female-sex passion, (4) neuter-sex passion, (5) joking, (6) zest, (7) boredom, (8) grief, (9) fear, (10) disgust, (11) anger, (12) pride, (13) deceitfulness, and (14) greed.
These possessions cause the loss of equilibrium of the mind. The man void of such possessions can concentrate his mind on the pure soul and attain excellent meditation.
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