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Destructive Emotions: Jain Perspectives represents the culmination of Professor Mardia's three decades of research into Kaṣāya, the Jain concept of the passions (or destructive emotions), which play a crucial role in the soul's accumulation of karmic matter, thereby perpetuating the cycle of life, death and rebirth, according to the Jain tradition.

In a manner reminiscent of The Scientific Foundations of Jainism, which distilled the essence of Jain belief into an axiomatic formulation that has come to be known as the Four Noble Truths of Jainism, Professor Mardia draws upon original scriptural sources and presents a comprehensive survey of the vast literature on Kaṣāya - filling a significant gap in the modern research and follows it with a summary and synthesis in the form of the Four Principles of Kaṣāya Doctrine, offering a transformative roadmap to liberation from destructive emotions (Kaṣāya=Anger, Pride, Deceit, Greed).