Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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MODERN JAINISM.
S'ukla Les'ā persuades the sixth man to think only of picking up those fruits that have fallen down.
The Eight Karma.
Karma.
The Jaina seem to have a passion for classifying, dividing and subdividing all the tenets of their faith. Karma, which is one of their main doctrines, they classify under eight heads.
Jñānāvaraniya Karma (alld192984 33), or the curtain that hides knowledge. If a man is prevented from getting 1. Jna'na'varaniya
knowledge in one life, either by poverty or stupidity, the reason is that in a
previous birth he must have hindered another from getting knowledge; e.g. destroyed useful books, or neglected to help a poor student by paying his fees, and so accumulated the Karma which now prevents him from getting knowledge himself.
Durs'unāvuraniya Karma ( Ezid192004 szt. If one man is beginning to believe in the Jaina religion and another
hinders him and puts stumbling blocks 2. Dars'ana'. in his way, the hinderer in his next varaniya Karma. Hirth will not be able to hav
birth will not be able to have faith even if he longs to possess it. The accumulation of this Karma accounts for the action of those Jaina who eat meat and break the rules of their religion. 3. Vedaniya Vedaniya Kurma (98-114 834) is the
Karma. one that brings happiness or unhappiness in the next birth.
Mohuniya Karma (918-14 $o?), the fourth, is the strongest of all and the one which brings most punishment.