The Practical Path

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...for ever, is the high road to nirvdna. Those who follow it pass directly from the tenth to the twelfth stage, and, acquiring omniscience as the reward of their unyielding, unflinching asceticism, reach the Supreme Seat. The saint who reaches the upaednta moha stage falls back to a lower one, and keeps on travelling backwards and forwards between the first and the eleventh station on the line till he is able to gird up his loins to tread the more trying and difficult kshdyaka path. (13) Sayoga kevali (sa=with, yoga, the three channels of activity, i.e., mind, speech and body, and keual'i=omniscient). This is the stage of jivana mukti, characterised by the total destruction of the four kinds of ghdtid karmas, but indicating the association with the physical body due to the operation of certain aghdtie. pralcritis. Those who evolve out the t'il'tha1_nka1'u. prakriti become the Master (tirthamkara) who reveals the true dhanrma, (religion). Surrounded by devas and men who hie from all quarters to offer Him devotion, the Tirthamhara explains the truth in the divine anakshari language, which is interpreted into popular speech, for the benefit of the masses, by an advanced disciple and muni called ganadhara. The truth thus known is called eruti (revelation), or eruta, jfidna, and its absolute accuracy is guaranteed by the faculty of omniscience which does not come into manifestation so long as there remains the least trace of any of the energies.of the mohaniya karma. (14) Ayoga keval"i (ayoga, without mind, speech and body, and kevali, ominiscient). This is the last stage-on the Path, and is followed by the s0ul's ascent to nirvdna on the exhaustion of the aghdtid karmas. The jiva who passes this stage is called...