Outlines of Jainism

SR No.: 007587
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 1916
Total Pages: 208
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
IV. Of the delusive (mohanīya) karmas there are twenty-eight kinds. According as the infatuation affects perception or conduct it is called respectively perceptioninfatuating (darśana-mohanīyu) or conduct-infatuating (chūritru-mohanīya).
A. Darśana-mohanīya is of three kinds: (1) samyaktva-, infatuation which affects or blurs perfect perception; (2) mithyātva-, infatuation which occasions false perception ; (3) miśru, infatuation which is a mixture of the first two.
B. Charitra-mohanīya is of twenty-five kinds. It relates partly to the four passions (kashūya)--anger, pride, deception, and greed, each one of which may (1) accompany false belief (anantānubandhi); (2) obstruct partial renunciations, i.e. the rise of soul to the fifth stage of its evolution (see gunu-sthūnus, pp. 48–52), then it is called upratyākhyānu-ūvaranīya; (3) obstruct total renunciation, i.e. the sixth guna-sthāna, then it is called pratyāklyāna-īvaranīya; and (4) keep self-restraint (samyama) impure (sa ñjvalana). These give us sixteen kinds of conduct-infatuation. The remaining nine (ukushūya) are: husyu, frivolity; rati, sentiments of attachment (or Eros); arati, sentiment of aversion; śoku, sorrow; bhayu, fear; jugupsů, dislike; strī, effeminacy"; purusha, masculine behaviour in women; napumsaku, spadonie behaviour in man or woman (35).
The classification of the four non-destructive karmas is: I. Nümu, which determines the character of our body, size, colour, height, etc., etc., is of two kinds: pindaprakriti, concrete qualities, and apindu-prakriti, nonconcrete qualities. A pinda-prakriti is of sixty-five