Laghutattvasphota

SR No.: 001614
Original Sutra Author: Amrutchandracharya
Author: Padmanabh S Jaini, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 308
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Philosophy
File Size: 17 MB

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लघुतत्त्वस्फोटः
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Your (quality of omniscience) is eternal, for, (speaking from the point of view which notes only the unchanging aspect of a quality and disregards its modal changes), you embody the manifold waves of consciousness devoid of momentary mutation. (i.e. There is neither diminution of, nor addition to, omniscience.) Your (omniscience) is (also) momentary, for it is endowed with the "tiny particles” (i.e. the variations or vikalpas produced by objects being reflected) in the consciousness; and yet (these "particles” are themselves) pervaded by the unified essence of consciousness. (6) [331]
उदगाद्यदुदेति तदेव विभौ यदुदेति च भूय उदेष्यति तत् । जिन कालकलडकितबोधकलाकलनेऽप्यसि निष्कलचिज्जलधिः ॥ ७ ॥
udagad yad udeti tad eva vibhau
yad udeti ca bhūya udesyati tat/ jina kälakalankitabodhakalā
kalane 'py asi nişkalacijjaladhiḥ 1/7||
O Jina ! In you who are omnipresent (through your knowledge), that very (omniscience) which had arisen (i.e. bc come manifest when you first attained kevala-jñāna) is risen now, and this currently risen (omniscience) will still be risen later (i.e. once made manifest, omniscience is never destroyed or diminished). And although your state of knowledge (i.e. your omniscience) is marked by the sign of time (i.e. had a beginning), you are nevertheless an ocean of knowledge devoid of such a mark (in that your quality of consciousness, of which omniscience is only a state, has neither beginning nor end). (7). [332]
त्वमनन्तचिदुद्गमसङकलनां न जहासि सदैकतयाऽपि लसन् । तुहिनोपलखण्डलकेऽम्बुकणा अविलीनविलीनमहिम्नि समाः ॥८॥
tvam anantacidudgamasankalanām
na jahăsi sadaikatayā 'pi lasan / tuhinopalakhandalake 'mbukaņā
avilnavilinamahimni samāh 1/8// (When the quality of knowledge is looked at as having a beginningless and endless existence), you are seen to) always shine forth in a unified manner, and yet (at the same time) you do not abandon (i. e. are not really free from) the manifested aggregate which is infinite consciousness (i. e. the state of omniscience either has the potential to arise or is arisen within this eternal quality of knowledge. This is analogous to the fact that manifold) drops of water can exist equally well (i.e. are not lost) in a chunk of ice, which possesses the greatness of embodying both liquidity