Jaina Ethics

Author(s): Dayanand Bhargav
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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kriyā).
Faina Ethics XXXVI. Attachment to worldly objects (parigrāhiki
XXXVII. Deceitfully disturbing one's right faith and knowledge (māyākriyā).
XXXVIII. Admiring wrong belief (mithyādarśanakriyā).
XXXIX. Not renouncing what should be renounced (apratyākhyānakrijā).
This long list of thirty-nine activities is not exhaustive. The basic idea is that any type of activity is the cause of inflow of kārmic matter.
Now, to classify these activities into two categories of good and bad, we should know that there are eight types of karmans in all, having 148 sub-varieties, Those eight types of karmans arel.:
(i) Knowledge—obscuring karmans (jñānāvaraniya). (ii) Connotation-obscuring karmans ( darśanāvarniya). (iii) Deluding karmans (mohaniya). (iv) Destructive karmans (antarāya). (v) Feeling-breeding karmans (vedaniya). (vi) Family-determining karmans (gotrakarman). (vii) Age-determining karmans (āyuşakarman).
(viii) Body-determining karmans (nāmakarman). Sinful activities:
The inflow of the first two types of kārmic matter is caused by the following five moral lapses :
(i) Condemnation of the learned in the scriptures
(pradosa). (ii) Concealing the knowledge (ninhava). (iii) Envy (mätsarya). (iv) Obstructing the progress of knowledge (antarāya).
(v) Denying the truth proclaimed by others (āsādanā). (vi) Refutation of truth purposely (Upaghāta).
Coming to deluding karmans (mohaniya), they are of two types :
(i) Right-belief-deluding (darśanamohaniya) (ii) Right-conduct-deluding (cāritramohaniya).
1. 2.
Tattvārthasülra, 8.5 Ibid.,, 6.11