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The Sacred Books of the Jainas. Samayasara (The Soul Essence)

1930

They emphasise with ceaseless repetition that the Pupil the Disciple the earnest Seeker after Truth must have a firm un-faltering un-loseable grasp of this basic FACT of the Universe that the Living and the noLiving substances quite exhaust the Universe and make up a perfect division of it by dichotomy and that the Living is the Living and never anything else and the Non-Living is itsel [...] The author says that his description of the absolute oneness of the soul is based on the strength of his own self-realisation and should be accepted in the light of individual experience which builds up on (1) the Scriptures ( 2) Discourses from the preceptors " (3) analysis and test by logical standpoints and (4) constant mGdittion and realisation of the true nature of the self. [...] But the opertion of the error-feeding passions without operation of wrong-belief brings about the downfall of the soul from the 4th to the 2nd stage. [...] so that from the 7th it can go up the destructive ladder to the 8th and higher stages skipping the 11th or the highest point of the subsidential ladder on its way from the 10th to the 12th stage the highest point of the destructive ladder where delusion does not subside but is entirely destroyed. [...] This knowledge i. e. the self-realization of the soul as it is is the sum and substance of the -teaching of Tirthamkaras and is laid down in the Jaina scriptures.

philosophy religion
Pages
235
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147253
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-3 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Introduction
1-8 J. L. Jaini view
Chapter I. Samayasara—the Real and the Political Point of view
1-26 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter II. Soul and Non-Soul (Jiva and Ajiva)
27-44 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter III. The Ethic of Action (Karma-Karta)
44-90 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter IV. Demerit and Merit—(Punya Papa)
90-100 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter V. Inflow of Karmas
101-110 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter VI. Checking of Karmas (Samvara)
110-117 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter VII. The Shedding of Karmas (Nirjara)
117-143 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter VIII. Bondage (Bandha)
143-165 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter IX. Libration (Moksha)
166-175 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter X. Liberation Pure Absolute Knowledge
175-180 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Chapter XI. Samayasara
180-214 Kunda Acharya, J. L. Jaini view
Backmatter
i-i Shuddhananda Bharati view

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