Jainism

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

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JAINISM
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(4) All other activities of body, mind, and speech not included in the first three causes. (Yoga).
These four general causes are each sub-divided into greater detail. There are five kinds of “mithyatva," twelve kinds of "avirati,” twenty-five kinds of "kashaya," and fifteen kinds of "yoga," making 57 sub-divisions. (Cf. TATTVARUHADHIGAMA SUTRA VIII. 1).
When any or all of these causes precede our actions, words, or thoughts, then we generate the energies under the eight-fold classification given above. These causes form the ground so to speak in which the energies are generated. It is like a man having an oiled body going out into a sooty atmosphere; the oil will be the ground on which the particles of soot will settle.
The sub-division of these four instrumental causes of the energies which clog the natural qualities of the soul, is as follows:
DELUSION
There are five kinds, namely:
(1) A state of mind in which we stick to a false belief. We may not know that it is a false belief. If a man does not examine the doctrines into which he is born, but accepts them without criticism as to their merits or demerits, he may hold a wrong belief, and not know it (abhigraha mithyatva).
(2) A state of mind in which the person thinks well, this may be true, also that may be true, or all religions are true. He does not go into it. (Anabhigraha mithyatva).