Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Sutra 3)
Spiritual Development
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omniscience (vivekajan jñanam) appears to be possible even in the absence of viveka. khyati which is followed by kaivalya atteaded with total elimination of the five klešas. Vācaka Vośovijaya 1 has taken strong exception to this conception of the Yoga philosophy. ३. तत्त्वं मिथ्या श्रद्दधानो मिथ्यादृष्टिः।
तत्र मिथ्यादृष्टेर्दर्शनमोहक्षयोपशमादिजन्या विशुद्धिः-मिथ्यादृष्टिगुणस्थानम् । विपरीत-दृष्ट्यपेक्षयैव जीवो मिथ्यादृष्टिः स्यात्, न तु अवशिष्टाऽविपरीतदृष्ट्यपेक्षया । मिथ्यादृष्टौ मनुष्यपश्वादिप्रतिपत्तिरविपरीता समस्त्येवेति तद् गुणस्थानमुक्तम् । किञ्च नास्त्येतादक कोऽप्यात्मा, यस्मिन् क्षयोपशमादिजन्या नाल्पीयस्यपि विशुद्धिः स्यात,
अभव्यानां निगोदजीवानामपि च तत्सद्भावात्, अन्यथाऽजीवत्वापत्तेः । 3. tattvaṁ mithyā śraddadhāno mithyādrstiḥ.
tatra mithya-drșțer darśana-moha-kşayopaśamādi-jany, visuddhih mithyādsști-gunasthānam. viparīta-dssty-apekşayaiva jīvo mithyā. drştiḥ syāt, na, tu avaśiştā'viparītadşștyapekṣayā. mithyādrstau manuşya-paśvādipratipattir aviparītā samasty eveti tad guñasthānam · uktam. kiñ ca násty etādřk ko'pyātmā, yasmin kşayopaśamādi
janyā nālpiyasy api visuddhiḥ syāt, abhavyānāṁ nigoda-jivānām api ca tatsadbhāvāt, anyathā’ jīvatvāpatteh.
(Aph.) A soul possessed of perverted belief is one who holds a perverse notion about truth. (III)
(Gloss) The state of the soul possessed of perverse belief consists in (modicum of) purity resulting from the destruction-cum-subsidence (and the like) of faith-deluding karman. The soul is said to be) possessed of wrong belief only with reference to his perverse attitude, and not with reference to the residuum of his right attitude (which is always there). Even in a soul possessed of perverse belief, there exists the right appraisal of truth such as of human and sub-human existences. And this is the reason why such state of a soul is designated as the state of spiritual development. Moreover, there does not exist a single soul that does not possess even the least purity resulting from the destruction-cumsubsidence and the like (of the karman). Even the soul absolutely unfit for emancipation (abhavya) and the soul in the nigoda state also possess that sort of purity, because without this the soulhood itself would be denied to them.
(Note): According to Jainism, even in the least developed soul such as the nigoda (unicellular organism), the trace of 'faith', like the trace of 'cognition', is pre1 Vyakhya on Patañjala Yoga, 3/52.