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Again we owe to Jinism that pramad has been put on a doctrinal plane (पंच आसवदारा--मिच्छतं अविरति, पमादो, कसाया जोगा (Thananga 418, Samvayanga-5) According to them pramad is an independent cause of bondage and even if present singularly all alone is sufficeint enough to attract inflow of Karmik matter in the soul region -the remaining four causes viz., Mithyatva, Avirati, Kasaya and Yoga need not be present. Pramad is a special term of Jain vocabulary and has been classified by Thananga 502 (छविहे पमाए पण्णते - मज्ज, जिद्द, विसय, कसाय, जूत्त, पडिलेहणा) This merely enumerates the cha racteristics of pramad, does not define it exhaustively or exclusively. Though the full and comprehensive meaning & implications of this word can be a subject matter of research yet suffice for our present purpose to say that pramad clearly includes the following-carelessness, lethargy, inactivity, laziness, unalertness, nonvigilance, inattentiveness, sleep, slowness, nonutilisation of spiritual faculties & bodily talents, mental passiveness, wastage or killing of time, notion of carefree enjoyment of wordly pleasures etc. etc. and we should be away from all these. In urdu we can translate pramad as मोज् । प्रभताः सुखिन: - Shilanka Acharanga, 134.
The above exposition vis-a-vis activity finds full support in the following: 48' îì48 81 qaragO Gautam I do not remain in pramad even for a moment (Uttaradhyayan 10th chapter).
तिहि ठाणेहि संपणे अणगारे संसारकंतार वीईवएज्जा, तं जहा श्रणिagarg, tà¿steqvqarg, sin arfgang (Thananga 136)
A monk having no demands, enlightened perception and right active life schedule crosses the world forest (Demand faara)
पुरस्कार मएणं जीव अपसत्थेहितो जोगहि तो णियतेई, पत्सथे
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