Jain Philosophy

SR No.: 002014
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti
Publication Year: 1924
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Religion
File Size: 17 MB

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are known and understood. The fifth is Absolute Knowledge, in which all limitations of body and brain are removed. This state is not a loss, but rather the acme, of consciousness.
All these stages come to the ego not of themselves but through persistent effort and exercise of free will, or rather by making the will freer and freer. Personality is the mere physical but subtle gathering of acre tions through which the individuality becomes unfolded. Personality is therefore changing every moment; the individuality is for every moment the particular stage of unfoldment of the ego itself, and is consequently the bearer of the sins and sorrows, pleasures and enjoyments, of mundane life. In absolute perfection this bearing uuture is thrown off like a busk, and the ego dwells in divine and eternal bliss. It is got destroyed nor is it merged into another ego or in a Supreme Being; and if the question be asked whether in this state of Mukti (deliverance ) there is one ego or a plurality of egos, I would answer in the words of the Jain Master: “That Atman by which I experienced myself and my essence through self-realization---that I am: neither masculine, feminine, nor neuter; neither one, two, nor many."
*This is not to be confounded with telepathy or direct thought-transference, in which a conscious relation has to be established between the agent and the recipient, since in genuine mind-knowing the developed man knows the mental activities of others without their trying to communicate them to him.