Jain Journal 1969 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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ill to the destruction of feeling, and from the destruction of feeling all ills wear out." The Buddha says further: "It is approved by us; it is pleasing to us; therefore we are delighted."
JAIN JOURNAL
atthi kho vo niganṭha, pubbe papakammam katam, tam imāya kaṭukāya dukkarakārikāya nijjiretha ; yam panettha etarahi kāyena samvutā, vācāya samvutā, manasā samvutā, tam āyatum pāpassa kammassa akaraṇam; iti purānam kammānam tapasā vyantibhāvā, navānam kammānam akaraṇā, āyatim anavassavā kammakkhayo, kammakkhayā dukkhakkayo, dukkhakkhayā vedanākkhayo, vedanākkhayā sabbam dukkham nijjinnam bhavissati 'ti. tam ca panamhākam ruccati ceva khamati ca tena camham attamanā 'ti.10
This is a comprehensive introduction to the seven reals or tattvas of the Jainas. The thoughts of Nigantha Nataputta represented in this passage are as follows:
(i) The existence of soul.
(i) Sukha and dukkha (pleasure and pain) are due to previous karmas.
(iii) By ascetic practices with right knowledge one could get rid of the effects of karmic matter.
(iv) On the complete stoppage of karmic matter, dukkhas would be arrested, and without dukkha there would be no vedanā (feeling), and the absence of vedana would lead to an end of dukkhas and this is called mokşa.
Here the first point represents jiva and ajiva, the second represents asrava and bandha, and the third point stands for samvara and nirjarā, and the last corresponds with mokṣa.
The Brahmajälasutta in the Dighanikaya refers to the sixty-two contemporary philosophical views which fall into two categories namely pubbantanudiṭṭhi indicating the ultimate beginninglessness of things concerned with the ultimate past on eighteen grounds, and the aparantänudiṭṭhi dealing with the future on forty-four ground. All the current views of that time have been classified into these two groups, as the Buddha himself says that there is no other conception beyond them (natthi ito bahiddhā).11
10 M. i. 93; cf. M. ii. 31; M. ii. 214 ff; also see A. i. 220. 11 D. i. 31-39.