RLGA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dravya, Digambara, Rishabhanatha
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A dispassionate death is a triumph for the eternal soul on its journey towards perfection. Jinas (victors or conquerors) is a message of twenty-four ascetic that whom was. Mahavira who taught the path to eternal happiness. Textbook notes: digambara: naked or sky clad, svetambara: white clad. Origins: shramana: world-renouncing fundamentally flawed, considered the brahmins" preoccupation with cosmic and social order to be, united in their condemnation of the status quo, the shramanas held views regarding the need for salvation from a meaningless cosmos. Jainas believe that the cycles of generation (utsarpini) an degeneration (avasarpini) produce predictable patterns in social, moral and physical life. Jainas believe that the entire cosmos is made up of six eternal substances, called dravya, and that knowledge of these dravya is an important step towards self-perfection: substances are classified in two board categories-jiva (soul) and ajiva (non-soul)
