Jain Journal 1995 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXX, No. 1. JULY 1995 bondage by the dissipation of its own karma where-upon it becomes pure and perfect and fixed as it were in the regions of Aloka.
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II. Jain conception of sins
There are thirteen kinds20 of sinful activities namely, (1) Those which are performed in one's interest, (2) Sinful deeds performed for others sake, (3) Acts of slaying, (4) Performed accidentally, (5) Deeds of erroneous perception, (6) Lying, (7) Accepting what is not freely given, (8) Deeds of conceit, and (9) Pride, (10) Ill-treatment of one's friends, (11) Deceitful deeds, (12) Greedy actions, (13) Sinful deeds concerning one's own religious life.
Deeds performed in one's interest21 are committed by one's motive. When a man for his own sake or for the sake of his relations or his friends or for the sake of Nāgas, Bhutas or Yakshas injures to movable or immovable beings or becomes responsible for the performance of sinful deeds by other person. When a man slays movable living beings or lights a heap of grass or responsible for others doing it or giving consent for the same are the sinful deeds not prompted by one's personal interest.22
When one hurts himself or others including those kith and kin, sentient and immovable beings, his sinful deed is known as slaying.23 The sinful acts of accidental killing24 are hunting either birds such as partridge, duck, quail or pigeon and animals like monkey by mistaking it as a deer. The sinful deeds of erroneous perception25 are the acts of killing such as mistaking a friend as one's enemy, killing a person mistaking him as robber etc. The sinful deeds of lying26 include those types of lying either for his sake or for the sake of one's kith and kin or for giving consent to others. The sinful deed of that which is not freely given27 is that when one accepts either for his own sake or for the sake of others that which is not freely given or consents others doing the same.
The sinful deed of conceit is that when a person possesses mental state of conceit28 viz. wrath, pride, deceit and greed and consequently
20. JS Part II p. 356. 21. Ibid., p. 357.
22. Ibid., p. 357 23. Ibid., p. 358 24. Ibid. p. 358. 25. Ibid., p. 359. 26. Ibid., p. 360. 27. Ibid., p. 360. 28. Ibid., p. 360.