Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM
state of delusion into a state in which we know that we are not deluded we have to remove our moral vices, especially intense and lifelong anger, greed, etc. (Mithyatva mohaniya karma).
(2) The second degree of the energies in us whose nature it is to infatuate us so that we cannot distinguish between right and wrong belief is that degree by reason of which we doubt the truth after we have believed it; we believe for some time and then there is doubt; we are vacillating. When this degree is active we just let the truth pass by without either liking it or disliking it; the state is a sort of indifference; whereas when the first named degree of this kind of energy is active, we positively dislike and repel the truth (mishra mohaniya karma).
(3) The third degree is that by reason of which, while believing in the truth most of the time, yet at certain times we feel that there is still something more to be known; there is just a little vacillating in this state (Samyaktva mohaniya karma).
We now come to the kind which in its operation makes us unable to act rightly. It is this kind of force in us that covers up the heart and makes us unkind, unsyipathetic, and, when intense, cruel. For certain reasons of convenience in classification and system twenty-five kinds are enumerated in the Jain doctrine. Each one is of an intoxicating nature. They are:
1 to 16. Anger, or rash and injurious action. Pride, causing us to ignore the sanctity of life in inferior beings, or to overlook good qualities in an otherwise inferior. Deceitfulness, where the thought does not correspond with
the speech or with the action. Greed, which arises from