Jainism a Theistic Philosophy

SR No.: 006918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishna A Gosavi
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 358
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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JAINA THEISM AND CONCEPT OF SOUL
Soul moves upward and when reaches the end of the universe, it stops there and rests there. It cannot move further upward because beyond the upper limit of the universe there is no medium of motion, an assisting cause to the motion of soul. Nor it can move back downward, because it has no weight, nor sideways, because it is devoid of any urge generated by karmas.
The bliss or happiness that the liberated soul experience is not conditioned and perverted any more. It is eternal, infinite and pure. It is indescribable and matchless. All sensual pleasures taken together of all three world are nothing before the highest natural bliss of the liberated one. Some have doubt in their mind as to how can there be any pleasure or happiness in the state where there is total absence of all means of sensual pleasure? But how can we forget that all the miseries a soul experiences in the world, are due to its desire for sensual pleasures. Afflictions due to desire for sensual pleasures are the only afflictions that we find in the world.
The reason why we enjoy sweet and delicious dishes is that we are afflicted with hunger. When one's belly is full, one does not like even the nectar-sweet food.
We do not like to wear in scorching heat of the summer those very clothes which we like to wear in winter. One, who has sat for long, wishes to walk and one, who is tired of walking, wishes to sit down and rest.
Enjoyment of sensual pleasure which seems favorable in the beginning appears unfavorable. How queer are the events in this world? Do the objects that we regard as means of happiness produce any positive happiness besides some relief? When a suppurated boil bursts, we experience relief. But that is no real positive happiness but merely subsidence of pain. Thus the pleasure we experience in sensual enjoyment, is nothing but subsidence of pain and distress.