Purusharthsiddhyupay English

SR No.: 001105
Original Sutra Author: Amrutchandracharya
Author: Ajit Prasad
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1933
Total Pages: 160
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Ethics, & Principle
File Size: 11 MB

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PURUSHARTHA-SIDDHYUPAYA
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environments of that body as its own. Under this class come all those Jivas who have not acquired Right Belief.
(6) Antarátmá are those souls that have acquired Right Belief. and have come to realise their own identity and reality by having belief in the truth of the seven principles; and have made such progress in their conduct as is likely to lead to ultimate purity. All right believers, householders or saints, come under this head. Such souls can only be found in the higher forms of life, where they possess the five senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, seeing and the mind. Such Jivas are found in human forms, among animals (possessed of the five senses and the mind) and amongst Hellish beings and Celestials. These Antarátmás may again be divided into 3 sub. classes.
(i) Those who have acquired right belief only, but do not possess sufficient control over the foreign leanings of the soul, to be able to follow the discipline laid down for a layman or saint.
(ii) Those who have acquired right belief and have adopted the conduct of a lay person, and are called Shrávaks.
(iii) Those that have acquired right belief and are engaged in austerities and other practices prescribed for saints.
(c) Parmátmá is the pure Jiva free from all defects, omniscient, with infinite power and peacefulness. Such Jivas are of two kinds (a) Sakal (with body) called Arhat, the worshipful; and (b) Nikal (without body) called Siddha, the Perfect. The Arhats retain a few external surroundings, which do not interfere with the inner reali. zation of inherent attributes of a Jiva. Such surroundings are, mere connection with the material body, for a limited time in pleasant environments and in the highest social position, and some glorious paraphernalia brought together by the celestials for purposes of devotion and propagation of the Doctrines to all beings. These outward surroundings are due to the operation of non-destructive Karmas, which are in the process of shedding off.
Nikal Parmatma has no connection whatever with a material body and has become essentially pure.
II. Ajiva or non-Jiva. - All the other substances in the universe, besides, Jiva, are Ajiva or non-Jiva.
Ajiva includes 5 distinct substances (a) Pudgala, (b) Dharmástikáya, (c) Adharmástikáya. (d) Akashá, and (e) Kála.
(a) Pudgala, matter. Its distinctive attributes are touch, taste smell, and colour. An atom forms the unit of this substance. In numbers it is infinite. An atom as conceived in modern science is