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**Introduction**
Jiva-Jiva-Abhigham: A Critical Study is a precious jewel-casket in the Jain Agam world. If we consider it from the perspective of the world's religious and philosophical literature, its place becomes even more dignified and glorious. In the vast expanse of religious and philosophical literature, Jain Agams and Jain literature occupy the same place as the moon and the sun among countless twinkling stars and constellations. Without Jain literature, the light of world literature is dim and dull. Western thinkers like Dr. Hermann Jacobi, Dr. Schubing, etc., also unanimously accept the truth that the Jain Agams have a beautiful harmony of philosophy and life, conduct and thought, emotion and duty, which is rare in other literature.
Jain Agams are an inexhaustible treasury of knowledge and science. It is as vast as its literal form, but its subtle and profound contemplation is even more expansive and great. The Jain Agams have declared the soul to be an eternal entity and have shown it the path of supreme purity. Along with this, they have propounded the holy confluence of right knowledge, right faith, and right conduct as its means. They have inspired the attainment of the ultimate peak and supreme excellence of life through the worship of renunciation, detachment, and self-control. They have revealed the eternal truth of life. Not only have they revealed it, but they have also made it practicable and applicable in conduct.
By the power of their practice, the proponents of the Jain Agams first recognized the truth themselves, knew the reality, and then they modeled the truth. Therefore, their thinking has the element of experience. It is not a flight of fancy, but an experiential reality-based thinking. The realistic and detached Jineshwars had a direct experience of the true essence and modeled it for the welfare of the beings of the world. This modeling and description is the Jain Agam. Being modeled by the realistic and truthful, it is true, unquestionable, and being a received word, it is Agam. Those who have conquered attachment and aversion are Jins, Tirthankaras, omniscient Lords, and their teachings and words are the Jain Agams. Because in them, due to the speaker's realistic vision and detachment, there is no possibility of fault, nor is there any contradiction or logical fallacy.
**Origin of Jain Agams**
Regarding the origin of the Jain Agams, Shri Bhadrabahu Swami has said in Praavshak Niyukti and Shri Jinbhadra Ganik Shamaashraman in Vishesh Avshayak Bhashya:
1. Sanvjagajivarakkhanadayattyaye paavayanam bhagavaya sukahyam /
2. Tamev saccham nisshank janjinehi paveiyam /
3. Praaptavachanaadavirbhatamarthasanvedanamaagam: /
Pramannaytatvalok [11]