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THE JAINA GAZETTE goes the doctrine. Of the passions Raga is both auspicious and inauspicious. The individual soul and the living bodies are different from each other. One who fails to understand this falls a victim to false attachment. Though placed in material sourroundings the soul neither accepts anything from outside nor leaves off its own nature. But the soul, in this transmigratory state, being an agent of impure modificatory developments due to external objects, is sometimes bound up with or released from karmic dust which is usually of eight kinds. This interpenetration of matter into the soul is known as bondage. From ordinary standpoint this may be looked at differently. The eternality and the all-consciousness of the soul must be realized : every thing else is momentary-it is this awakening that cuts the knot of delusion. Then the soul is realized and eternal happiness attained as the passions are destroyed and senses controlled, friends and foes become equal. At this stage being free from every hindrance, rich in every kind of happiness and knowledge, being beyond the reach of senses and having no sense activities at all, the kevalin meditates on the highest happiness.
BOOK III Taking leave of his relatives and being intent on faith, knowledge, penance and strength, one should approach a nierited monk;then becoming indifferent to the world, being determined and assuming the form in which one is born he should be initiated into the order of asceties. The highest emblem of Jaina asceticism consists in nakedness, pulling out hair, purity, ceasing from harming others, in becoming a proof against karmas, abstaining from sinful intentions, entertaining concentration of mind, in manifestation of pure consciousness and in independance. Accepting such an emblem one should practise his course of asceticism.
He should adopt the primary qualities which are twentyeight in number to wit :-five orilas, five Samitis, controls of five senses, pulling out hair, six essential duties (Adasyakas), nakedness, not-taking-bath, sleeping on the ground, not cleansing
teeth, taking meals in standing posture, taking meals only once a Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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