Istopadesa The Golden Discourse

SR No.: 007695
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp
Total Pages: 170
Language: English, Sanskfit
Classification: Book_English & Book_Devnagari
File Size: 3 MB

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Verse 9
status. It has been said in the Scripture:
The soul indeed has taken in (enjoyed) successively all the molecules of matter in the entire universe and has cast them off. And the soul has been revolving many times over in the cycles of matter.
There is no point in the entire space of the universe which has not been the seat of birth of the soul. In this way, the soul has wandered in the entire universe space many times over.
The transmigrating soul has been born and dead many times, in the ascending as well as in the descending aeons.
Owing to its association with wrong belief, the soul has wandered, with different lifetimes, in all the states of existence, from the infernal regions up to the upper Graiveyaka heavens. Owing to its association with wrong belief, the soul is plunged in all the stages of the four types of bondage - nature, duration, intensity, and space and wanders in the cycle of thought
activity.
Adapted from: Jain, S.A. (1960), "Reality: English Translation of Shri Pujyapada's Sarvarthasiddhi", Vira Sasana Sangha, Calcutta-37, p. 57-60.
It is owing to the influence of the associated material impurities that the soul wanders about in the samsara, seeking pleasure and happiness. Under the blinding influence of the karmic matter, it identifies itself with the body. Its natural rhythm of freedom is consequently lost and it undergoes all kinds of changes of form and state in the course of transmigration. Although characterized by pure knowledge and perception, it wanders about, over and over, without a break, in places inhabitable and uninhabitable.
We have lived lives with life-spans ranging from inside 48 minutes (antarmuhurta) to innumerable millions of years. Some
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