Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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MODERN JAINISM.
Above Greveyika is Anuttarı Vimāna (249 742 19410) a group of five heavens which are inhabited by higher gods, who will attain Moksa after the expiry of one age. To pass to Moksa, an inhabitant of Anuttara Vimāna would have to descend to our world and become a man and an ascetic. Above Svarga is the highest region of all, called
Moksu (la); it is attained by those who Moksa.
are completely freed from Karma, and these are generally ascetics.
The denizens of Moksa are Siddha (demi-gods ) who experience neither pain nor happiness.
We shall have to discuss Moksa later, as it ranks as one of the nine elements of Jaina philosophy.
Our world, or Tiry kaloka Casals, is situated beneath the lowest Svarga and separates it from Hell. It is made
up of two and a half islands, each of which Tiryakaloka.
LOK&. is divided into seven parts (the half island being divided into seven smaller parts), and these twenty-one parts are again subdivided.
On each Island is a district of great importance called Mahāvideha (4811926), but no one knows where this district is. During the fifth and sixth ages only those born in this district can attain Moksa, and these, too, must first have been ascetics. Below our world is Adholoka (ay?1913), which con
tains the Seven Hells or Naraka ( 123 ). Naraka. Most vivid pictures are published as to the various torments suffered by the denizens of Hell.*
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