________________
112
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
fulfil
through recklessness. They would always their promises. Such experienced people are called Shishta.
5. Is with regard to the degree that the sense pleasures should be enjoyed and controlled. The man having been for all time in the past enjoying the pleasures of the senses cannot at once give them
up, and therefore some only need to be given up at first; and so he may enjoy sense pleasures to a degree commensurate with his business and household duties, that is to say he should give up those sense pleasures which conflict with his duties. And he should control all those sense enjoyments which
would encourage or feed any of the following six things, namely:
the lustful
the man's
(a) Kama or sexual passion, lust, eye, in regard to a woman or girl not Wife. This passion in this form should be conquered.
own
(b) Krodha must be conquered. It is that emotion which is the cause of hurting or injuring done in a rash way. This may be called 'anger': there are the two elements of (1) injury to another, and
(2) rashness of the action or speech.
(c) Lobha (greed) must be conquered; it is either or both of the following two modes of being greedy: (1) not relieving a genuine case of distress
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
