Membership form
This membership is required to be filled in by all Spiritual Aspirants.
| Three things are required for the active membership of this Kevalajñānavinayatapasya-saṅgha, viz: | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | The conquest of the first two levels of intensity of the passion ANGER which is a characteristic of the second stage of spiritual development of Jain Yoga or of the fifth guṇasthāna | |||||||||||||
| Stages of spiritual development part 1-11 | table which desplays the four levels of intensity of the kaṣāyas and the corresponding degree of the guṇasthāna | |||||||||||||
| 2 | The knowledge of the reality of the existence of the goal, viz sayoga-kevalī | |||||||||||||
| 3 | The resolution to make efforts to reach this target. | |||||||||||||
| Seven things are required for the aspirant of membership of this Kevalajñānavinayatapasya-saṅgha, viz: | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 10 days patience to read the 10th anga, one chapter a day with each other day with ayambil only | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Reading the discussion with a Swiss Christian in the train from Winterthur to Zurich with additional reading of the paper NT… | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Reading the constitution of the cosmos and comprehend the three tirms astikaya, tattvas and padhartas | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Reading the Nandi Sutra, Tattvadhigama Sutra and the introduction story of the Srimad Pujyapada's Sarvarthasiddha how it came to samyagdarsanajñanacaritrani mokhamarga. | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Understandig the meaning and interpretation of the Swastika Symbolik with the three points and the horizontal crescent with a siddha sitting on it | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Understanding the meaning and interpretation of the 7-sided view with the parable of the 7 blind men and the elephant with the saying of Virchand R. Gandhi | |||||||||||||
| 7 | The fifth stage of spiritual development or guṇasthāna requires the taking of one tirthakṛt nāma karma for a member it is of the kind of sustaining Jain scriptures with prove therof | |||||||||||||
| cf. The three phases of karma in regard with the tirthakrt nama karma which has to be taken for reaching the fifth gunasthana | ||||||||||||||
| cf. The nineteenth and 20th sthānaka in Saṁvara [part 261] note 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Checking the variations of the 4 passions | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | All of the aspirants for the fifth dṛṣṭi are in possession of anger | |||||||||||||
| 2 | many with anger and one with pride | |||||||||||||
| 3 | many with anger and many with pride | |||||||||||||
| 4 | many with anger and one with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 5 | many with anger and many with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 6 | many with anger and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 7 | many with anger and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 8 | many with anger, one with pride and one with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 9 | many with anger, one with pride and many with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 10 | many with anger, many with pride and one with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 11 | many with anger, many with pride, and many with deceit | |||||||||||||
| 12 | many with anger, one with pride and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 13 | many with anger, one with pride and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 14 | many with anger, many with pride and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 15 | many with anger, many with pride, and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 16 | many with anger, one with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 17 | many with anger, one with deceit and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 18 | many with anger, many with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 19 | many with anger, many with deceit, and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 20 | many with anger, one with pride, one with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 21 | many with anger, one with pride, one with deceit and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 22 | many with anger, one with pride, many with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 23 | many with anger, one with pride, many with deceit and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 24 | many with anger, many with pride, one with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 25 | many with anger, many with pride, one with deceit and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| 26 | many with anger, many with pride, many with deceit and one with greed | |||||||||||||
| 27 | many with anger many with pride, many with deceit and many with greed | |||||||||||||
| All these 27 variations of the 4 passions are existing in hell too, see Bhagavatī Śataka 1 Uddeśadaka 5, chapter 5 titled [on the sort of life], p. 76 K.C. Lalwani edition; question-answer, dealing with infernal beings | ||||||||||||||