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Scantiest food given in alms,—even this he may not get; yet he is never to complain. He would be ill but he must not lose his self-control. Thorns and thistles, dirt and mud, honour and insult, nothing should disturb the equanimity of his temper. He must not be proud of his knowledge nor sorry for his ignorance. He must not lose his faith in the fact of the final emancipation, although he may not have any of the superhuman attainments in spite of his long and best efforts. These are the twenty-two Parīşaha's, the conquest of which makes emancipation attainable.
But what is at the basis of these Parīşaha’s which obstruct the way to one's liberation? It is Karma. The Jñānāvaraniya Karma produces Prajñā and Ajñāna. The Adarśana-Parīşaha is due to Darśana Mohanīya Karma. The Antarāya Karma produces the Alābha Parīşaha. Nāgnya, Arati, Stri, Nişadyā, Ākrośa, Yāsnā, SatkāraPuraskāra are based on the Çāritra Mohanīya Karma. The rest of the Parīşaha's are due to the Vedaniya Karma's.
CONQUEST OF THE PARİŞAHA's
It seems that Karma is almost inseparable from the Jiva. The “way-farers” who have not reached the tenth of the Guņasthāna's are called the Bādara Sāmparāya. The Jaina's say that in a Bādara Sāmparāya, all the twenty-two Parīşaha's are possible and on the other hand, the "wayfarers" in whom all the passions save and except a very slight degree of Lobha have been destroyed are called SūkşmaSāmparāya; these are in the tenth Guņasthāna. The Upaśānta Moha “way-farers” are in the eleventh stage; the Çāritra Mohanīya Karma has been suppressed in them. The Kșīņa Moha are those who are in the twelvth Guņasthāna and whose Moha has been totally annihilated. Such, however, is the power of Karma that even in the Sūkşma Sāmparāya, the Upaśānta-Moha and the Kșīņa Moha saints, the Parīşaha's except the Nāgnya, Arati, Strī, Nişadyā, Ākrośa, Yāçnā, Satkāra-Puraskāra and Adarśana are present. The super-man who has totally up-rooted
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