Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
receiving or exhibiting or changing various pictures depending upon the command one gives from remote control.
1. Knowledge-obscuring
2. Vision obscuring
Once you have physical body you are bound to have various physical, mental and moral problems which are causes of miseries. Jain concept of liberation is to get rid of all Karmic bondage and attain the purest form of Soul called Siddha. In this stage he enjoys infinite happiness and bliss with infinite knowledge. He has no rebirth and does not have any material body forever. In such evolutionary processes it unfolds its absolute purity. Its full perfection is then manifested. This perfection of the individuality is the Jain Nirvana or Mukti or Moksha. The individuality is not merged into anything; neither is it annihilated the process of this development, or salvation, may be said simply to consist in right realization, right knowledge, and right life-the ultimate purest form of Soul.
7. Status-determining
Atma
Jiva
3 feeling producing
6. Nome and structure
determining
Types of Karma
5. Ago-determining
There are eight types of Karmas which affect or obstruct the inbuilt virtues of Soul. They are described as 1) Knowledge obstructing 2) Perception obstructing 3) Non detachment obstructing 4) Power obstructing 5) Body forming 6)Transmigration causing 7) Status causing and 8) Bliss obstructing. One who desires liberation need to annihilate all these Karmas.
There is nothing which can partake both, the attributes of soul and of matter; the attributes of matter are directly contrary to those of the soul. While one has its life, in the other it is not. How can that soul live in matter when its attributes are of a different nature?
How can that soul live in matter when its attributes are of a different nature?
By our own experience we know that we are obliged to live in