Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
type necessarily persists in a soul uptil the time of the attainment of omniscience.
The Difference Between Avadhi and Manahparyāya :
Avadhi and manahparyāya differ in respect of purity, spatial extent, person authorized, object. 26.
Though both avadhi and manaḥparyāya are of the nature of genuine perception of a partial type, they differ from one another in so many respects. Thus they differ as to purity, spatial extent, person authorized, object.
(1) Manahparyāya-jñāna apprehends its object much more clearly than does avadhi-jñāna, hence the former is purer than the latter.
(2) The spatial extent of avadhi-jñāna stretches from a finger-measure divided by asaṁkhyāta upto the entire loka, but that of manahparyāya-jñāna stretches only up to the mountain Mānuşottara.
(3) Beings belonging to all the four classes are authorized to acquire avadhi-jñāna but only human beings who have undergone a certain measure of discipline are authorized to acquire manaḥparyāya-jñāna.
(4) All the coloured substances along with the several of their modes can possibly be an object of avadhi-jñāna, but only one out of ananta of them—that is to say, only the substances in the form of manas—can possibly be an object of manaḥparyāyajñana.
Question : So manahparyāya has got a less extensive sphere of objects than avadhi. Why then is it considered to be purer than the latter ?
Answer : The ground of purity is not a lesser or greater extent of the sphere of objects but the knowledge of a lesser or greater number of subtle features of the objects concerned. Thus if among two persons one is conversant with a number of disciplines and the other with only one and if the latter is better