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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
| Lustre V
(Gloss) Dharma, adharma, space and time which fall in the category of non-soul are immaterial). The material aggregates, however, are material, and merit and demerit quà modes of material bodies are also material. All the nine real entities are worthy of being known, and of them, the three only, viz. 'inhibition', 'falling off' and 'emancipation' are worthy of acceptance while the remaining six are worthy of rejection. It is not improper to regard even the soul as an object worthy of rejection in its aspect of being subject to transmigration.
We shall now cite the example of a pool, as exposed by Acārya Bhikṣu, revealing the essence of the nine categories. Thus
The 'soul is like a pool. The 'non-soul' is like the non-pool (i.e. what is other than Merit' and 'demerit' are like water gushing out
'Influx' is like a conduit through which pure and impure water passes in.
'Inhibition' is like the block in the conduit.
The 'falling off' is like the means of emptying (the pool of its) water. 'Emancipation' is like the pool emptied of all its water. : :
इति संवरनिर्जरामोक्षस्वरूपनिर्णयः ।
iti savara-nirjarā-mokșa-svarüpa-nirņayaḥ. Thus ends "The Determination of the Nature of Inhibition, Falling off and Emancipation."
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