Jain System in Nutshell

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Nij Gyan Sagar Shiksha Kosh Santa MP

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(3) The bad, and therefore, undesirable passions lead to pains. The world is a playground of passions resulting in mixture of pains and pleasures. The religious paths lead to minimizing pains to zero or maximising the pleasures to infinity. Mathematically, one could exprese, Worldly Existence, P:
Rα Ηα HP 6. The world is assumed to be a cyclic whirlpool. Centripetal forces of passions and possessions are working upon it for strengthening rebirthal process. In contrast, centrifugal forces of physical and moral actions like observance of vows and austerities are working against it to counteract the above process. It is clear that until the centrifugal forces have exceeded the quantum of centripetal forces, no utimate happiness or salvation will crystallise. Hence for happiness, Centrifugal forces of non-attachment > centripetal forces of
Passions/ possessions. 7. When passion-free, the pure living has unlimited knowledge, conation, energy and bliss, This capacity is obscured because of physical actions and psychological volitions in the living. They create disturbances in the surroundings infested with sub-atomic or karmonic particles leading to their attractions towards contaminated living serving like a magnet. This causes heavy or light karmic fusions or bonding deciding its differentials and destinity. This karmic theory is dynamic, optimistic and mutational rather than fatalistic. It allows the living to ascend or descend the volitional purity ladder. It is an ancient form of psychologic theory of habit. 8. Jainism is based on animistic belief. It presumes primary livingness in all until weapon-operated. However, this livingness may vary from zero in the non-living ones to infinity in the salvated beings. The other living beings have intermediate livingness between zero to infinity. The Jain system encourages the different living beings to mutate their quality of livingness to higher and higher levels through processes reducing the karmic density from high (sinful life) to low (sacred life). Of course, infinite level of purity may only be attained through human destinity which starts with sufficiently lower karmic density. 9. There are four destinities- hellish, celestial, sub-human and humanfor the living beings in order of decreasing karmic heaviness and increasing volitional purity. That means that the purity of the living is inversely proportional to karmic density, Dk, or
Pruity « 1/DK In order to attain the highest state of ultimate happiness, called salvation, one must have Dk tending to zero so that happinese, H or purity becomes infinity. Thus, if happiness, H, is defined as
_ No. of desires fulfilled
Total number of desires
H
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