The bhavasa@mvaras are (1) the vows of non-injury, truthfulness, abstinence from stealing, sex-control, and non-acceptance of objects of desire, (2) samitis consisting of the use of trodden tracks in order to avoid injury to insects (irya), gentle and holy talk (bha@sa), receiving proper alms (e@sa@na), etc, (3) guptis or restraints of body, speech and mind, (4) dharmas consisting of habits of forgiveness, humility, straightforwardness, truth, cleanliness, restraint, penance, abandonment indifference to any kind of gain or loss, and supreme sex-control [Footnote ref 1], (5) anuprek@sa consisting of meditation about the transient character of the world, about our helplessness without the truth, about the cycles of world-existence, about our own responsibilities for our good and bad actions, about the difference between the soul and the non-soul, about the uncleanliness of our body and all that is associated with it, about the influx of karma and its stoppage and the destruction of those karmas which have already entered the soul, about soul, matter and the substance of the universe, about the difficulty of attaining true knowledge, faith and conduct, and about the essential principles of the world [Footnote ref 2], (6) the pari@sahajaya consisting of the conquering of all kinds of physical troubles of heat, cold, etc, and of feelings of discomforts of various kinds, (7) caritra or right conduct.

Next to this we come to nirjara or the purging off of the karmas or rather their destruction.  This nirjara also is of two kinds bhavanirjara and dravyanirjara.  Bhavanirjara means that change in the soul by virtue of which the karma particles are destroyed.  Dravyanirjara means the actual destruction of these karma particles either by the reaping of their effects or by penances before their time of fruition, called savipaka and avipaka nirjaras respectively.  When all the karmas are destroyed mok@sa or liberation is effected.

Pudgala.

The ajiva (non-living) is divided into pudgalastikaya, dharmastikaya, adharmastikaya, akas’astikaya, kala, pu@nya, papa.  The word pudgala means matter [Footnote ref 3], and it is called astikaya in the sense that it occupies space.  Pudgala is made up of atoms

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[Footnote 1:  Tattvarthadhigamasutra.]

[Footnote 2:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 3:  This is entirely different from the Buddhist sense.  With the Buddhists pudgala means an individual or a person.]

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