Jainism

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

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JAINISM
(3) The state of intentionally sticking to a false opinion.
(4) The state of doubts as to whether a given cours of action is right or wrong. You stand still. (Samshaya mithyatva).
(5) Lack of development. The entity sticks to a false belief or has no belief. Not having developed the faculties of judgment, conviction, etc., he does not come to a conclusion. And when in this state his thoughts, words, or actions generate a certain force obscuring the soul's natural qualities. (Anabhoga mithyatva).
LACK OF CONTROL
over the senses and over the mental activities (avirati).
This second of the four impellent forces in us is subdivided into twelve kinds. These include lack of control of the thoughts and of the five senses in relation to living beings having the power of locomotion; and other forms of lack of control.
The five senses are the channels for acquiring knowledge, and indulging them stops consciousness. If you relish a nice taste your thought about the thing stops. Thus knowledge is hindered. Also if in spite of our decision not to think injurious thoughts about a person we do still think them, from lack of control of the thoughts, then we are generating energies which will obscure some quality of our soul.
MORAL UNCLEANNESS. (KASHAYA) This is the third of the four impellent forces in us, and it is sub-divided into twenty-five kinds. They are the