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Jaina Acāra : Siddhanta aura Svarūpa
goal. There are twenty-two afflictions from the sixth to ninth stages of spiritual development. One may not experience more than nineteen afflictions at a time, since some of them are contradictory to each other as heat and cold or moving about and sitting.
Affiictions are because of knowledge-obscuring, obstructive, deluding and feeling-producing Karmas.
They are not all causes of afflictions but some Karmas produce particular afflictions, as feeling-producing Karmas cause hunger, thirst, heat, cold, insect-bite, moving about, bed, murder, straw-bed, dirt etc.
The Buddha had no faith in mortifying flesh, but has emphasized all the same the conquest over afflictions.
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