Samayasara

SR No.: 006764
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 370
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 20 MB

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SAMAYASĀRA
235. Whoever develops love and devotion to the three jewels which constitute the right path to mokşa, that person is considered to be the right believer endowed with love and devotion to the true path.
COMMENTARY Love and devotion sustain him in the right path. Hence there is no lack of devotion and love and hence there is no karmic bondage, consequent thereupon. There is only nirjarā to be achieved.
Next is described the eighth constituent element of prabhāvanā or proclaiming the truth (of pravacana or Divine Word).
विनारहमारूढो मणोरहपहेसु भमइ जो चेदा । सो जिणणाणपहावी सम्मादिट्टी मुणेयव्वो ॥२३६॥ vijjārahamärūdo manorahapahesu bhamai jo cedā so jiņaņāņapahāvī sammādițțhi muneyavvo (236) विद्यारथमारूढः मनोरथपथेषु भ्रमति यश्चेतयिता।
स जिनज्ञानप्रभावी सम्यग्दृष्टिमन्तव्यः ॥२३६॥
236. The Self, which mounted on the Chariot of knowledge roams about as it pleases (shedding the light of wisdom), is to be considered a right-believer who is engaged in propounding the Jaina faith.
COMMENTARY This emphasises the social aspect of religious faith. A person who is equipped with knowledge of reality and who is therefore engaged in self-realisation should not be satisfied with his own personal acquisition of the sublime wisdom. He must place the benefit of his achievement at the disposal of the other members of the society. There is no such thing as isolated personal salvation. He is bound to share the wisdom with others and he must take with him as many as are willing to walk the path with him. This necessarily implies that the enlightened person should not be confined to any particular place. He must go about from place to place carrying the torch of light and wisdom thus spreading the true knowledge and true faith in all