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GLOSSARY
Abhavya (Incapable to attain liberation, an incapable soul) Abhisheka (Anointing ceremony) Abrahma (Incontinence, coition, unchastity) Adharma (Sinful act, vice, irreligion) Adharma-dravya (The medium of rest, anti-ether substance) Adhah-karana (Beginning of the process of self-meditation through which the soul attains to some degree of purity leading to self-realisation - samyagdarshan) Adho-loka (The lower world, the hells where infernal beings live) Advaita (Non-dual, the monistic school of Vedanta) Aghatia/Aghati (Non-obscuring karmas which are the cause of embodiment and surrounding conditions) Ahimsa/Ahinsa (Non-harming, non-injury, non-violence) Ajiva (Insentient, non-soul substances) Ajnana (Ignorance, false knowledge, lack of knowledge) Akama-nirjara (Involuntary dissociation of karmas) Akashaya (Free from passion or desire) Amudha-drshti (Free from superstitions & delusory notions) Amurta (Immaterial substances, non-matter) Ananta-darshan (Infinite perception) Ananta-jnana (Infinite knowledge) Ananta-sukha (Infinite bliss) Ananta-virya (Infinite spiritual power) Anantanubandhi Kashaya (Intensest type of passion causing infinite bondage) Anashana (Fasting) Anga (Limb, a group of 12 Jaina canonical texts) Anga-prakirnaka (Group of 12 Jaina canonical texts) Anivratti-karana (The process of self-meditation through which the soul attains right belief or self-realisation by suppressing certain Mohaniya Karmas) Antaraya-karma (Obstructing karma which restricts the energy - quality of the soul)
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