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JAINISM
IST PROCESS
The work done in the first process in an enormous reduction of the length of time that any particular foreign energy that we may generate may stay with us before it is naturally worked out. And when the living being experiences the feeling that this whole embodied life is a misery it shows that this work of reduction has been done.
2ND PROCESS
The work done in the second process is a still further reduction even if it be only a reduction of 48 minutes. And when the living being experiences for the first time a desire to remove the worst degree of anger, etc., above referred to, it shows that this further reduction has been effected.
3RD PROCESS
The third process is the actual control of the worst degree of anger, etc., so that it does not rise; it is checked by the mind directly it is felt to be rising.
The “knot" spoken of above is the attack on us of our inborn likes and dislikes, especially as to convictions regarding conduct, that it is right (or wrong) to kill, hunt, fish, etc.
With regard to the first process, it is possible only for a being with the five senses and a mind to pass through this experience. But this experience that embodied life is
a misery may be felt an infinite number of times and still Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
