Primer of Jain Principles

Author(s): Kirit Gosalia
Publisher: Kirit Gosalia

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153. What is called 'clouded right faith' deluding karma?
This is a type of deluding karma. Here, when these karma give fruition, then the mode of the right belief quality is not destroyed. Instead, it is associated with certain foulness, like unsteadiness of ideas (Chal), impurities of the ideas (Mal) and lack of firmness of ideas (Agadh). Omniscient Jina knows the nature of such minute state of foulness, as described here. All three of the above foulnesses can be explained as follow: Remember that the soul has conventional (Vyavhar) ascertainment (Pratiti) of the true omniscient.
• Unsteadiness of ideas (Chal) - there is unsteadiness within the
thought process that this Omniscient is "mine" and that Omniscient belongs to "others". Impurities of ideas - rise of doubt, etc. (Mal), are called impurities of ideas. Lack of firmness (Agadh) - When this Lord Shantinath bestows peace, etc., this feeling is called lack of firmness.
The above-mentioned examples are given conventionally (Vyavahar), but there is no set rule. Only Omniscient Lord knows these kinds of foulnesses. One should realize that some sort of foulness is found in the belief of reality (Tatvarth).
154. What is known as "right conduct" deluding karma (Charitra mohniya karma)?
The karma, which destroy the right conduct attribute's mode, are called right conduct deluding karma.
155. How many different types of right conduct deluding karma are there?
There are two types:
1. Passions karma (kashay) 2. Quasi-passions karma (nokashay)
156. How many different types of passions karma are there?
There are four types each with four sub types:
Passions karma for infinite bondage of the soul (Anantanubandhi kashay karma), whicht has four subtypes:
-Anger (Krodh), ego (Man), deceit (Maya), and greed (Lobh). Passion karma for the partial vows prevention of the soul (Apratyakhyanavaran kashay karma), which has four subtypes:
-Anger, ego, deceit and greed.