Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
him a high seat, (3) washing his feet, and applying the washing to one's forehead in token of reverence, (4) worshipping him, (5) saluting him, (6-8) preserving one's own mind, speech and body in a state of purity in his presence, and (9) giving him pure suitable food to eat.
The life of a saint should be one continuous så mâyika from one end to the other, as far as possible. In practice, however, the development of his will depends on the destruction of his ghatiyu karmas, the order of which will now be described briefly. Of the four kinds of kashays (passions) comprised in the class of charitra mohaniya (see p. 898 ante), there are four types of each, denoting four different degrees of intensity which may be described as
1. mild, 2. malignant, 3. highly malignant, and 4. the most malignant.
Of these, the most malignant are the worst, and prevent the acquisition of Right Faith itself ; the highly analignant sort admit of the acquisition of Faith, but obstruct Right Conduct; tbe malignant enable the householder's vows to be observed, but stand in the way of the more rigorous vows of asceticism becoming a saint; and the mild only debar the soul from pure self-contenplation (sukla dhyânu). The destruction of the fourth type leads to the acquisition of Right Faith through the development of discrimination; of the fourth and the third, to the adoption of the house-holder's conduct ; of these two and the second, to the observance of the vows of asceticism ; and of all the four to śukla dhyana, which is