I am The Soul Part 02

SR No.: 006791
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 466
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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I am the Soul
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This subject is worth knowing in great detail. Another question that occurs is - nigoda jiva, what can be its capacity? With what will it bind karma? Yes, Brothers! We have five reasons for binding karma - mithyatva, avrat, pramad, kashaya and yoga. This jiva has all these five present in it. It is not endowed with sumakit, it cannot perform any vows or rituals, it is already into pramada, all the passions are there in it and of course there is only one yoga of body. So there are all the reasons for bondage of karma. Of course, it is true that their growth is very less and hence all these reasons are not strong. They may not be able to bind the same type and same quantum of nikachit karinas that we might bind on account of such reasons, yet the reasons are present there. Since attachment and aversion are there, unexpressed, the jiva has the ability to bind karmas.
Brothers! This was only matter pertaining to jivas in the nigoda. But other than these the jivas residing in all four different gatis keep playing this game with Karma. They never rise above it. What I intend to say is, has the jiva managed to make any progress in the many births that it has taken? Has it been able to perform its own duties? Has it been able to offer any services at the social level? Has it been able to achieve any progress at the spiritual level? It may or may not do all this but it certainly goes through birth and death. That never stops.
It is to escape this, to get away from the whirlpool of birth and death that our infinitely benevolent Prabhu has shown us the path. He has placed the very deepest principles of spirituality before us. He demonstrates that atma is eternal. Understand that it has no birth and death, believe in it and devotedly pursue it and break this chain of births and deaths, so that the atma is liberated forever.
The discussion of the six statements in Atmasiddhi Shastra is to understand this truth alone. All the statements are very important. Through them, by proving the eternal nature of atma,