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Appendix I : Interpretation of Philosophical Concepts
attachment or partiality or blind faith in Jain darśana, but it is based on his research oriented study and his experience as a great seeker and sādhaka yogi.
In Vyākhyānasāra, part 2, he says that Jain darśana means realization of soul. He wants to suggest that the sole purpose and object of Jain darśana is nothing but realization of the self (soul). The propagators or preachers of this darśana were men of final and total realization of the self and the darśana is based on their own experience. In part 4/20, he has said that the aim, and object and sum and substance of all Jain scriptures is to make aspirants realize the self ( soul ). And this is preached by one and all Jain teachers of all ages. In his
padeśa-bodha, part 35, he has elucidated this point as
follows:
"Vītarăga darśana is the real healer (doctor); it is an absolute truth (satya-svarūpa); (because) it preaches Keeping far away infatuation, delusion, sensepleasures, attachment, repulsion, violence etc. as sense pleasures and passions cost the sufferer (a sick person) Very dearly. Some darśanas talk of vítarāgatū that keeps or causes the disease to be away for the time being, but they also talk and allow at times, things like
ituation, development of mundane life (sunistīrull,
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