Pure Soul and Its Infinite Treasure

SR No.: 007661
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayantilal Jain
Publisher: University of Madras
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 283
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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make the present state disappear and future state to emerge but remains neutral/detached from different states and meditates on the pure and eternal nature of the soul and as a result, such pure states flow automatically and continuously. These pure states do not emerge due to the contemplation of external substances or means. It emerges from within. Such an unstinted, incessant and undivided contemplation of the pure soul facilitates early achievement of the pure and perfect state of Moksha. One who does not look inward for such a state remains ignorant and condemned to worldly existence.
37-38. Existence of Pure-Pure Nature and Absence of Impure-Impure Nature (Bhavabhav and Abhavabhav) - These two properties show the unity of the mode and the substance. The present pure state of the soul is supported and arises due to the eternal pure nature of the soul and hence the present state or form follows in tandem with the eternal nature of the substance. In this process of operation of unity or uniformity of the soul's mode and its substance, there is complete absence of impure states of the soul as these impurities belong to other substances and not the soul. That is, impurities are not in tandem with pure soul and such impurities do not exist either in the transcendental nature of the soul or in the modes of the soul. A nonexistent state will remain non-existent if not in tandem with the substance and an existent state does not give up its character or nature and hence remains in existence as it is in tandem with the nature of the substance. Pure-Pure nature refers to the pure substance and its pure modes. The soul retains its pure nature because both its properties and forms are pure. Absence of impure-impure nature refers to other substances and their properties and modes which are always absent in the soul.