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In Islam, the Sufis, again, thought all rituals to be non-essential and declared 'I am God: 317Estet, which was similar to Vedānta's proclamation :- 3TË TE The Sufis, therefore, insisted that either they be allowed to drink wine in a mosque or they be told of a place where is no God:
जाहिद शराब पीने दे मस्जिद में बैठ कर
या वो जगह बता कि जहाँ पर खुदा न हो ॥ Sufism is, thus, pure spiritualism devoid of religious taboos. Place of Samayasāra : its spiritualism & its universality:
We have to evaluate Samayasāra, a work of spiritualism, against the background of upanishadic spiritualism of the Vedic tradition and Sufi spiritualism of the Islamic tradition. Both of these spiritual movements underrate the ritualistic part of the religion. Ritualism Vs spiritualism:
Samayasāra belongs to Jaina tradition. Jaina tradition, like other traditions, has rituals of own. The rituals of Jainism are heavily morality oriented. Spiritualism transcends not only rituals but is supra-moral also. The problem before Acārya Kundakunda was not only to explain away the rituals but to re-interpret morality also in a way that it fits in the scheme of pure spiritualism. This was to be done in a way that laxity does not find a way into in morality, just as it happened unfortunately in the case of such tradition as Vajrayāna of Buddhism.
Ācārya Kundakunda could do it successfully by the helps nonabsolutism, the bed-rock of Jainism. He could, therefore, lay down the foundation of a universal code of spiritualism, which could be acceptable to all; of course, with a little of variation of their own.
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