Spiritual Awakening and other Essays

Author(s): Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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with the degree of avoidance. Perfect non-attachment and consequently perfect Ahiṁsā is rendered possible only in the life of Arhantas and below this only degrees of Aparigraha are possible. 1 Parigraha Parimananuvrata : - The householder is incapable of renouncing all Parigraha. He should limit the Parigraha of wealth, cattle, corn servants, buildings etc. inasmuch as the spirit of renunciation is the right principle.55 This is Parigraha-parimāņāņuvrata or the gross form of the vow of Aparigraha.
We may say in passing that the householder's vow of Aparigraha would tend to annual the economic inequality rampant in society and thereby everybody will be able to get things of daily necessities at least. Today, men, and nations are striving for the enhancement of their wealth and territory at the cost of others with the consequence that the individual and national tensions are increasing. Parigraha is detrimental when it engenders inordinate clinging. An attitude of a philanthropist is essential for the observance of the vow of Parigraha-parimāņāņuvrata.
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Kundakunda, Pravacanasāra, 1-7 (Ed. A.N. Upadhye: Rāyacandra Jaina Šāstramālā). Ibid. 11-6. The empirical self is recognized by the Prāņas it owns. The lowest in the grade of existence is the one-sensed Jivas. These one-sensed Jīvas admit of five-fold classification, namely, earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, and lastly vegetable-bodied souls (jivās). They possess four Prānas-sense of touch, Bala of body, life limit, and
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