Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

SR No.: 001612
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1927
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & Canon
File Size: 9 MB

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303. The intelligence, which, without the instrumentality of (any one's) teaching, makes (one proficient) in poisons, mechanical devices, nets, traps, and loops etc. (for capturing elephants, lions, fish, birds etc., is wrongsensitive-knowledge. So they call it.
भाभीयमासुरक्खं भारहरामायणादिउवएमा। तुच्छा अस्ताहणीया सुयअण्णाणंत्ति णं बेति ॥ ३०४॥ भाभीतमासुरक्षं भारतरामायणाद्युपदेशाः। तुच्छा असाधनीयाः श्रुताज्ञानमिति इदं त्रुवन्ति ॥ ३०४ ।।
304. (Proficiency in) theft (and) police, preaching of (Mahá) Bharata and Rámáyan etc., vulgar and contempt. ible (literature), (constitute) wrong scriptural knowledge. So they call it.
Commentary. Right scriptural knowledge is that which keeps one engaged in the thinking and writing of truth leading to liberation of the soul ; and that which appertains to temporal matters, and onesided views is called wrong scriptural knowledge. From this spiritual point of view, all literature and teaching of matters relating to the commission, as well as the prevention and detection of offences, literature of fiction, and impossible stories, propagation of doctrines which cannot be established by logical arguments, and all light, vulgar, and obscene literature are all instances of wrong scriptural knowledge.
विवरीयमोहिणाणं खोवसमियं च कम्मबीजं च । वेभंगोत्ति पउच्चइ समत्तणाणीण समयम्मि ॥ ३०५ ॥ विपरीतमवधिज्ञानं क्षायोपशमिकं च कर्मबीजं च । विभङ्ग इति प्रोच्यते समाप्तज्ञानिनां समये ॥ ३०५ ॥
305. (Knowledge which is) opposed to visual knowledge, which is destructive-subsidential (kshayopashamika) knowledge and (is) the cause of Karmas is wrong-visualknowledge (Vibhanga). This has been said in the scriptures of the (saints) with complete knowledge.