Positive Contents of jainism

Author(s): Joharimal Parikh
Publisher: Z_Parshvanath_Vidyapith_Swarna_Jayanti_Granth_012051.pdf

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Positive Contents of Jainism
paryaya-kevalajñāna ), urgelessness ( samjñārahita ), beyond biological feelings (avedanā ), passionless (akaṣāyi ) and freezing of mind, body & speech ( ayogi ) and not the Akryāvādis, Vinayavādis and Ananavādis. Kryävādis world roaming is not limitless but just nearing the end (suklapaksi ). He does not have wrong or perverse faith, nescience or wrong knowledge does not take birth in one sense to four sense beings, animal species, hell, lower categories of heavens like Bhavanvāsi (Asuras ), Vānmantara (Bad spirits ) and Jyotisi (Astronomical stellers ), instead he is born as human being or in high-class planed paradises (Vaimānika deva ) and one day or the other will be emancipated; the case of others three is otherwise.
We have established that Jainas fall in the group of Kryāvādi philosophies but that does not amount to the full endorsement of all other schools.of Kryāvādi thought falling in this group. Amongst Kryāvādis also there are various perverted sects but they have not been approved by Jainas. For example some say that activity does not result in bondage ( Sutra-krtānga I. 1/51 ), while others maintain that activity alone without knowledge is sufficient for salvation ( Sutra-krtānga 1.10/17), still some insist that all the five ingredients, viz., a being, his knowledge, killer's mentality, deliberate effort and resultant death are simultaneously necessary for bondage but all these view-points have been commented upon and discarded.
Proposition : The sin of those who simply intent but do not kill or who committ violence unknowingly is negligible just a touch of bondage.
Reply : These are three distinct modes of committing sins, viz., by doing, getting it done or approving of it.
Proposition : Though these three modes of committing sins are there yet due to purity of emotions one bypasses the bondage. A father, devoid of obstinence (saṁnyama ), but in wise state, kills his son and eats the flesh, even then he is not bound by Karma.
Reply : This is a false proposition. If one has an idea of malice, his mind can not be said to have emotional purity and therefore insets of sins have not been closed by him.
Jaina Kryāvāda has been refined thoroughly well and is a very fine complicated and sophisticated doctrine. It requires very high mental and spiritual calibre to practise it. Even to understand and preach it correctly, is not an easy job. As noted in the outset, exposition of Kryāvāda (i.e., karma-yoga ) in Gitā has not