Jaina Mysticism and Other Essays

Author(s): Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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It will not be idle to point out here that the soul in this Guņasthāna is called Samyagdrsti, Antarātman“, Bhinnagranthios, and the occupant of Sthirādņşti46. Being spiritually awakened, the Samyagdrști considers his own self as his genuine abode regarding the outward physical dwelling places as artificial47. He renounces all identification with the animate and inanimate objects of the world and properly weighs them in the balance of his discriminative knowledge48. His is the only self that has acquired the right of Mokşa“9. Besides, he practises universal compassion (Anukampā)s, does not hanker after worldly opulence and empyrean pleasures”, shows no feeling of disgust at the various bodily conditions caused by disease, hunger etc., 52 and is free from all fears.3 Again, being overwhelmed by fear, inferiority and greed for profit, he does not recognise Himsā as Dharma54. Apart from this, he has deep affection for spiritual matters and strengthens the conviction of those who are faltering in their loyalty to the path of righteousnessss and disseminates spiritual religion through various means best suited to time and places6.
Fall from awakening or (a) Sāsādana Guņasthāna and (b) Miśra Guņasthāna :
If the spiritual awakening is due to the total annihilation of Darśana Mohanīya (Vision-deluding) Karma, the self has thrown over all the chances of its fall to the lower stages. This is called Kșayika Samyaktvas. It is Sthirādssti propers. But if the spiritual awakening is consequent upon the suppression of Darśana Mohanīya Karma, the self after one Antarmuhūrta either falls to the lower stages or remains in the same stage with the emergence of certain defects ordinarily incognisable. This is known as Upaśama Samyaktva“. Here four Anantānubandhi passions and the Vision-deluding Karma which is divided into three qualitatively different fragments of Mithyātva (impure), Samyaktva-Praksti (pure), and Samyaka-Mithyātva (semi-pure) are suppressed62. When the impure piece comes up, the self again decends to the first Guņasthāna where again darkness overwhelms63 him; if the semi-pure piece, the self falls to the third Guņasthāna, namely, Miśra Guņasthāna wherein total
Jaina Mysticism and other essays