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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श्रीमदमृतचन्द्रविरचितः active, and even to this day they course through the caves in the very depths of the three worlds (i.e. they encompass the entire universe), destroying delusions with their great power. (4) [579)
दृग्बोधढिमोपगूढविततत्रैलोक्यभारोन्मुख
घ्यायामार्पितचण्डवीर्यरभसस्फारीभवज्ज्योतिषः । उच्चण्डोत्कलिकाकलापबहलाः सम्भूय मुञ्चन्ति ते ।
स्पष्टोद्योतविकाशमांसलरुचश्चैतन्यनीराजनाः ॥५॥
drgbodhadrļhimopagūdhavitatatrailokyabhāronmukha -
vyāyāmārpitacandaviryarabhasasphāribhavaj jyotişah / uccandotkalik akalāpabahulah sambhūya muñcanti te
spaștodyotavikāśamāmsalarucaś caitanyanīrājanā) //3/1
The "waving lamps” of your consciousness simultaneously give off a clear, sparkling, powerful light; they are filled with glowing flames, and the rays (of their light) are extended by the force of that excessive energy which puts forth great effort in bearing the burden of the three worlds. (And this burden is) firmly embraced by the fully expanded intuition and knowledge. (5) [580]
एकस्योच्छलदच्छबोधमधुरद्रव्यात्मनोन्मज्जतः
.. कोऽनेकान्तदुराशया तव विभो ! भिन्द्यात् स्वभावं सुधीः । उद्गच्छद्भिरनन्तधर्मविभवप्राग्भारभिन्नोदय
देवत्वं यदि नाद्यतः स्वयमपि स्वादान्तरैः सरये (साधयेत्) ॥६॥ ekasyoсchaladacchabodhamadhuradravyātmanonmajjataḥ ko 'nekāntadurāśayā tava vibho bhindyāt svabhāvam
sudhiḥ / udgacchadbhir anantadharmavibhavaprāgbhārabhinnodayair devatvam yadi nädyataḥ svayam api svādāntaraiḥ saraye
(sādhayet) //61/
O Omniscient One! You are One, manifest as the embodiment of substance, beautiful through your sprklingly clear omniscience. What intelligent person would attempt to separate you from your own nature (i.e. claim that consciousness and soul are partly identical and partly non-identical merely to establish the doctrine of anekānta, (which advocates such a separation), unless that would establish (the fact of your soul's innate divinity ? (i.e. The point of the anekānta doctrine is to show the ever-present potential divinity of the soul in bondage, without rejecting its actual mode at any given time.) This (potential divinity) can be established through the (fact