Outlines of Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 011084
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta
Publisher: Jain Mission Society Bangalore
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 195
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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DOCTRINE OF KARMA
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word 'darśana' is meant to signify the second meaning. It can be translated as intuition, indeterminate perception, indistinct knowledge, undifferentiated cognition, or perception in the sense of general cognition. That karma which obscures the faculty of intuition is called intuition-obscuring karma. It is of nine subspecies according to the four species of intuition and five kinds of sleep. I. Caksurdarśanāvarana karma...It produces the obscuration of the intuition conditional upon the eye. 2. Acakşurdarśnāvarana karma.—This species causes the obstruction of the intuition conditional upon the four senses (other than the eye) and mind. 3. Avadhi-darśanāvaraṇa karma.-It hinders the faculty of transcendental intuition of material things. 4. Kevala-darśanāvaraṇa karma. It produces the obstruction of the faculty of complete intuition. 5. Nidrā karma.-This type of karma causes a light and pleasant sleep, out of which the sleeper is aroused by the clicking of fingernails or by a slight call. 6. Nidrānidrā karma.-This type of karma produces a deep sleep, out of which the sleeper can be awakened by being shaken violently. 7. Pracalā karma.--It causes a sound slumber which overtakes a person while sitting or standing. 8. Pracalāpracalā karma.—This species of karma causes intensive sleep that overcomes a person while walking. 9. Styānagyddhi karma.—It produced somnambulism. This kind of sleep is also called 'styānarddhi. The person possessing this kind of slumber unconsciously acts in the state of sleeping but forgets what he did when he wakes.
FEELING-PRODUCING KARMA
The feeling of pleasure and pain is caused by this species of karma known as vedaniya karma. It has, therefore, two subspecies: 2
1 Krama-grantha, 1, 10-12. ? ibid., I, 12.
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