Agam 31 Chulika 01 Nandi Sutra Sthanakvasi

SR No.: 007652
Original Sutra Author: Devvachak
Author: Amarmuni, Tarunmuni, Shreechand Surana, Trilok Sharma
Publisher: Padma Prakashan
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 542
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English, Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Ethics, Conduct, & agam_nandisutra
File Size: 19 MB

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1. Arhat-Those who have made their soul absolutely pure by si 55 rooting out the influence of tough vitiating karmas as well as the 5 spiritual vices like attachment, aversion, lust, and anger. And 4 5 consequently wiped out the cause of rebirth.
2. Bhagavant-Those great souls that are endowed with great 55 altruistic virtues like ultimate grandeur, unlimited power, all 5 enveloping fame, extreme radiance, transparently pure spirituality,
and untiring endeavour directed at incessant flow of spontaneous compassion.
3. Utpanna Jnana-darshan dharak-Those who have been enlightened and endowed with self realized direct perception and knowledge Knowledge and perception can be acquired indirectly with
the help of studies, listening, practice, and other means. This is not y self realized direct knowledge but indirect knowledge.
4. Samadrit and namaskrit-Those who are revered because
ney spread the light of their untainted direct knowledge throughout 4 bf the three worlds and are saluted with devotion for this spontaneous i compassion.
5. Trikalajna—Those who have the capacity to know past, present, and future directly and without any outside means or method.
6. Sarvajna-Those who directly know every substance from every angle and whose knowledge is all pervading.
7. Sarvadarshi—Those who directly perceive every substance from every angle and whose view and viewpoint are all pervadıng.
Only those great men who are endowed with these seven attributes are the propagators of samyak shrut. Their sermons were secured within twelve ganipitaks (boxes of ganadhars, a metaphor for canons). When we think of samyak shrut being in the form of human body these twelve boxes form the twelve main parts of that body. 45 That is why these are also called the twelve Angas (parts).
The words of those great men who absorb this samyak shrut, also 55 become samyak shrut. In this category come the eleven Angas and fourteen purvas of the twelfth Anga. There is a belief that the words of those great men who absorb the eleven Angas and complete ten purvas of the twelfth Anga, are also samyak shrut. The words of 5
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