Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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Its consti
Freedom,
but in number
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
bondage and attain to a free and beatific tutionai state of being by means of the Truine
Gems (tait), the Fiva is held to be constitutionally free and essentially all bliss (lar). It is potentially divine in the sense
that it attains to Divinity or Perfection in Its Divinity,
the end when it shines in all its glory and effulgence beyond all thought and speech near
the regions of Aloka. And its Infi
Now there are an infinite number of these magnitude Frvas-filling the entire space and void of the
universe and are mainly grouped into -
(A) Freed Fivas--are those beings who 1)The Freed have attained to divinity and become self
conscious and self-luminous neai the lyperphysical regions and,
(B) Fettered Frvas-are those who are tered Jeastill bound down with the chains of karma
either on Earth, in Heaven, or in Purgatory Which is These fettered Fivas are again sub again into, divided into (1) Sthåvura and (ii) Tras
(1) Sthavara Fivas—are those which w The Sth. are devoid of all power of locomotion
and have only one organ of sense, viz, that of touch (q). Earth, water, fire, air and all those that come within the
Irva
(2) The Fet
classified
vara and
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