Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Sätras 29-30) Spiritual Development
751 २९. वेदनादिभिरेकोभावेनात्मप्रदेशानां तत इतः प्रक्षेपणं समुद्घातः। 29. sedanādibhir ekibhavenātmapradeśānāṁ tata itaḥ prakṣepanaṁ
samudghātaḥ.
(Aph.) Expansion (samudghāta) is the projection, in diverse directions, of the points (pradeśas) of the soul, completely engrossed in the experience of distress and the like. (XXIX)
(Note) The soul has three dimensions, and it occupies a portion of space. The number of points in the soul are innumerable and fixed. Each point expands in the process of samudghata which may be due to many causes to be enumerated in the next sūtra.
In this connection, it should be noted that the soul has a shape which is not like that of a material body. It is like a field of energy, which is not identical with shape. In samudghāta, there is the expansion of the field of spiritual energy. The Jaina conception of soul as co-extensive with the body is to be understood in terms of the field of spiritual energy. The soul pervades the body in the sense that it can feel any sensation in any part of the body. It does not extend beyond the body in the sense that it cannot feel an event occurring outside the body, though it has a capacity to feel anything in any part of the cosmos by developing the relevant power. In other words, the soul can catch the signals emanating from the cosmic events. Jainism does not feel the necessity of the expansion of the spiritual energy-field for coming into contact with events at remote places outside the body.
Jainism, however, does not deny the possibility of the soul, expanding itself to any part of the universe, if and when necessary. Such expansion and projection of parts of a soul are discussed under the concept of samudghäta.
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ganti १. सम् इति एकीभावेन, उत् प्राबल्येन, घात इति हन्तेर्गत्यर्थकत्वाद् आत्मप्रदेशाना ___ बहिनिस्सरणम्, हिंसार्थकत्वाच्च कर्म पुद्गलानां निर्जरणं समुद्घातः।। 1. sam iti ekībhāvena, ut prābalyena, ghāta iti hanter gatyarthakatvad ätmapradeśā.
nām bahir nissaraṇam, himsārthakatvāc ca karmapudgalānām nirjarasam samudghātaḥ. The word samudghāta consists of sam+ut+ghäta. Sam means complete unifica. tion ; ut stands for intensity; ghāta is derived from han meaning ‘movement and also 'destructron'. The whole word (samudghäta), therefore, has two meanings : (i) outward projection of the points of the soul with intense feelings, and (ii) the vigorous shedding off of karmic matter from the soul,