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the sun is not destroyed. Space (Akās'a) appears in the form of a house, but on the house being pulled down the space is still there. So also with the loss of the body the Soul is not destroyed. Like a man wearing a new robe discarding the old and worn out one, the Soul leaves one body and enters another. Thus, it is necessary to discriminate between the immortal Self which often times comes to be mistaken for many transient things just like the royal swan that distinguishes milk from water when the two are mixed and it sucks milk and leaves water.2
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
1 Jnanes'vari II. 140, 141, 142, 143.
2 Ibid. II. 127.
3 Ibid. XIV. 136.
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Jñanes'vara holds that the jīva feels itself to be in bondage due to nescience which consists in the failure to know the real nature of the Self.3 The jiva which acts under the influence of the three attributes does many actions, which bear their corresponding results as good and bad, and in order to experience them the jiva has to revolve on the round of births and deaths. The jiva thus transmigrates as long as it acts under the spell of ignorance and regards itself as the real agent of actions. But according to Jñanes'vara, the world and the sense of egohood and agentship is a result of nescience (avidyā), because only the Brahman and Brahman alone and no other thing is real. Kṛṣṇa in Jñanes'vari says to Arjuna that nescience (avidyā) which is beginningless and indescribable, is His eternally young wife; avidyā has no real
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