RELS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Digambara, Jiva, Nudity
16 Jan 2016
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Women cannot attain liberation: they are incapable of sufficiently intense activity. Women cannot become pure enough to attain liberation: incapable of sufficiently rigorous debate. You have to understand the nature of the universe. It can be acquired through debating with others: women cannot go with two-paths. They cannot be naked- they will be harassed/harmed, though men can. There can"t be two paths, one way is to be naked, a path from mahavira, therefore women cannot attain. Women can attain liberation: cite scripture 2/3 of the women at mahavira"s time, nudity alone does nothing. When a person strip naked, they are no longer religiously advanced, pure, self-disciplined than the moment before they were naked. Mahavira"s nudity was equal to purity of heart: jiva is genderless/sexless. Women can be considered as women but in social as male. Jiva is true self which is immaterial and eternal.
