Niyamsara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Uggar Sain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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Observing those rules regularly and flawlessly with the idea of realising the self is called Cháritráchára.. (d) Conduct of austerities (Tapáchára) is the proper and
regular observance of twelve kinds of austerities (Tapas) as fasting, etc., (vide Tatwárthá-dhigama Sutra,
Chapter IX, Sutras 19-20.) (e) Conduct of soul-force (Víryáchára) means the develop
ment of soul-force and repulsion of the Karmic forces
with the view of attaining liberation.. An áchárya, as defined above, himself practises and observes all the above-mentioned five kinds of conduct, and instructs the saints of his order to do the same. Any saint of the order who is in the 6th and the 7th stages, is well versed in Jaina Scriptures, and is capable of teaching and instructing other saints of the order, is called the preceptor (Upadhyaya).
All other saints who are neither ácháryas nor Upadhyayas are known as Sádhús. They may be in any spiritual stage from the 6th to the 12th stages, where delusion is absolutely destroyed. From the 8th to the 12th, all are the progressive stages of meditation. In these stages a saint is deeply absorbed in meditation and selfrealisation, and there it is impracticable for him to observe and fulfil the main and special duties of an Acharya or an Upadhyaya.
A saint, after destroying the Delusion Karma (Mohaniya), reaches the 12th stage, and there finally destroys the three remaining destructive Karmas, i.e., knowledge-obscuring, conation-obscuring and obstructive Karmas, by dint of meditation and self-realisation. Then he enters the 13th stage of Vibratory Omniscient (SayogaJina). where he is known as Arhat or the Worshipful Lord. The Worshipful Lord proclaims Truth to the world. When the same soul or the Worshipful Lord is about to be entirely freed from Karmas and his vibratory activity has ceased, He is said to have entered the 14th stage of Non-vibrating omniscient Lord (Ayogi. Jina). During the very short period of this stage, the soul destroys the remaining four Non-destructive Karmas, i.e., feeling (Vedaniya), body-making Karmas (Náma), family determining (Gotra) and age (ÁvwKarmas. Then the soul is finally free from all the Karmas. and has accomplished all that was to be accomplished. Such a soul is known as a Perfect Soul (Siddha). From the above, we note that a soul when it observes and follows the 13th rule of conduct, remains, either in the condition of an áchárya, Upadhyaya or a Sádhú and the attainment of the condition of being an Arhat or a Siddha is an outcome of the observance of the rules of Right Con