The Minor Vows
The people expected to follow the minor vows
Who are Shravaks and Shravikas (Laypeople)?
The opposite of Kshama
What is Krodh (Anger)?
The two classifications of karma
What are Ghati and Aghati?
The nav-tattva (list)
What are:
01. Jiva (living beings)
02. Ajiva (non-living matter)
03. Punya (virtuous Karma)
04. Päp (non-virtuous Karma)
05. Äsrava (influx of Karma)
06. Bandha (bondage of Karma)
07. Samvar (stoppage of influx of Karma)
08. Nirjarä (eradication of Karma)
09. Moksha (liberation)
Virtuous and Non-virtuous Karma
Punya and Paap
The two purposes of the minor vows
What are spiritual and social?
The most basic state of the soul.
What is contentment (santosh)?
The three ways to remove negative karma.
What is:
1) Knowledge of previous lives
2) Knowledge of the mystery behind the cycle of birth and death
3) Knowledge of the conscious mind and how to purify it
3 Categories of Tattva
What are:
1) Heya (Worth abandoning)
2) Upadeya (Worth attaining)
3) Jneya (Worth knowing)
Passions
What is "Kashaya"?
The names of the five minor vows.
What are Ahimsa (Non-Violence), Satya (Truth), Acharya (Non-Stealing), Brahmacharya (Celibacy), and Aparigraha (Non-Possessiveness)?
Consistency in thoughts, words, and actions.
The state of mind that allows people to do good deeds without accruing new karma.
What is detachment?
The two categories of Mithyatva (false beliefs)
What are:
1) Agrahita Mithyätva (Inherited from past lives)
2) Grahita Mithyätva (Acquired in this life):
Minor Vows
What is "Anu-Vrata"?
The five rules of restraint in observance of the vow of ahimsa
What is:
1) Control of speech
2) Control of thought
3) Regulation of movement
4) Care in lifting and placing things or objects
5) An examination of food and drink before consuming
The two possible courses during an anger-provoking situation
What are the creation of anger and the prevention of anger?
What is:
1) Feeling Pertaining (Vedaniya)
2) Physique Determining (Nam)
3) Status Determining (Gotra)
4) Life Span Determining (Ayu)
The four aspects of bandha
What are:
1) Nature (Prakriti)
2) Quantity (Pradesha)
3) Duration (Stithi)
4) Intensity (Anubhag or Rasa)
Virtues
What is "Guna"?
The four types of falsehoods
What is:
1) Denying the existence of a thing with reference to its position, time and nature when it actually exists
2) Assertion of the existence of a thing with reference to its position, time and nature when it does not exist
3) Where a thing is represented to be something different from what it actually is
4) When speech is ordinarily condemnable, sinful and disagreeable
The eight types of ego
What are:
1) Pride of knowledge
2) Pride of Worship
3) Pride of Family
4) Pride of Heritage/Race
5) Pride of Power
6) Pride of Accomplishment
7) Pride of Austerity
8) Pride of Body
Papabandhi Punya Karma (define)
What is karma that gives a person happiness and pleasure, but allows them to indulge in vices. (i.e. working hard earns you a lot of money (punya), but you choose to gamble, do drugs, etc. (paap))
The two ways to shed Karma
What are:
1) Sakäm Nirjara: the eradication of karma through austerities
2) Akäm Nirjara: the dissociation of karma after experiencing the related effect.
Fundamental
What is "Tattva"