Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

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Bhagavai 7:2:27-28
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he has renounced the killing of all living beings ...... up to all animate beings, sometimes he is the doer of supratyākhyāna (virtuous renunciation); sometimes he is the doer of duspratyākhyāna (vicious renunciation).
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 27-28
While propounding his views on the truth, Lord Mahāvīra made use of the doctrine of standpoints (nayavāda) or based them on the relativistic approach. That is why there is no one-sided or absolutistic insistence in them; there is the touch of truthfulness. In the present context too, a relativistic view about the performance of pratyākhyāna (renunciation) is presented.
Lord Mahāvīra propounded the truth from different viewpoints and also relatively, thus avoiding absolutistic partiality. It is not possible to speak of an act of renunciation as exclusively good or bad. It can be described virtuous or vicious relatively with reference to particular cases. Suppose there is a person who has no distinctive knowledge about what is soul and what is non-soul. Now, if he renounces the killing of all living beings, how would he properly observe the vow of not killing all living beings?
Abhayadevasūri has pointed out that proper observance of the vow of not killing any living beings is not possible without the knowledge of what is soul and what is not soul. In context of this fact, the pratyākhyāna (i.e., the acceptance of the vow of non-killing) made by an ignorant person can not be decmed an act of virtuous renunciation.
Srimajjayācārya has further dwelt on the relative approach. According to him, the person who does not know the distinction between what is soul and what is not soul has a deluded world-view; such person cannot have knowledge of all living beings, and in absence of knowing them, if he renounces the killing of all living beings, then renunciation of such person, because of his ignorance, is not a genuine or virtuous renunciation-it is duspratyākhyāna or vicious renunciation; again if a person with deluded world-view, who distinguishes between the mobile and immobile beings, renounces the killing of them, then such renunciation is a duspratyākhyāna (vicious renunciation) on account of the absence of samvara (inhibition of the influx of karma) which does take place (even in spite of deluded view); it can be deemed as supratyākhyāna. Srimajjayācārya has quoted a number of passages from the scripture in support of this view.?
The first necessary condition of renunciation is the enlightened world-view. Without the knowledge of the distinction between what is soul and what is not soul, a person cannot have the enlightened world-view. In the absence of that knowledge, he cannot attain the state of a monk. In the term “tiviham tivihena' i.e., through three types of acts and three types of instruments, three types of acts are doing, getting done, and approving; and three types of instruments, are mind, speech and