The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.244

c8.244

The qualities determining a *lessā* are represented in Utt. 34 along with the whole of their theory. We need not quote from Pannav. 17 in which way the five kinds of cognition divide among the bearers of the six *lessā* (Pannav. 357 a), but we have to point out that though the Kevalin during his stay on earth (*sajogi kevali*) still has the white *lessā*,² the Siddha has no longer any of it. That is why in the canonical expositions, e.g. Viy. 40b, the *salessā* are particularly mentioned wherever circumstances ask for it. The *ohi*-cognition so characteristic of the beings of hell extends the farther the brighter the *lessā* is, just as from the top of a mountain we see farther than from any point in a plain (Pannav. 355a). Things are different with the Karman: as said by Viy. 300b, a being may have a darker *lessā* with a lesser Karman and a brighter one with a stronger, i.e. when the owner of the darker *lessā* has annihilated his Karman stronger in itself down to a remainder smaller than the whole Karman of the owner of a brighter *lessā*. So in Vy. the explanation of the text words *thiim paducca*.