Jain Tattva Parichay

SR No.: 007761
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ujjwala D Shah
Publisher: Veetrag Vani Prakashak
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 194
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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Letter 22
This Jeev in fact, does not stop here. It not only identifies himself with the body, but has the feeling of being one with the family, like wife children etc. or having oneness or mineness with possessions like wealth house, car etc. In fact, these are all totally different, separate substances which are Ajeev Tattva.
But Jeev considers himself to be happy or unhappy, wealthy or poor, a family person or a single loner person without anyone to depend on and hence helpless or unlucky etc. because of these other things. In family life we see many people miserable because of these types of wrong notions. They are unmarried or don't have children and then consider themselves as unlucky and imperfect.
It is no wonder that all your beliefs and ideas are fallacious in life because you have initially wrongly identified yourself with the body and all your other beliefs are based on this wrong assumption.
Since times immortal this Jeev is passing through many different forms in the cycle of birth and death. One single Atma unites with the body which is a conglomeration of infinite Pudgal Paramanus and their conjunction and separation means taking these new forms or going through the cycle of birth and death.
In Mokshamarga Prakashak this belief of the Jeev due to Mithyatva is described as follows:
(1) The oneness with this present state of the body and the soul conjunction or . This is me'. Atma
Pudgal
Vine
Swabhava Vibhava touch taste smell colour
(Dnyan, (passions) Darshan etc. )
He considers that the combination of all the above is himself. That means both the body as well as the possessor of knowledge and passions is me or myself. This is called Ekatva Buddhi (Fargfa) or identifying oneself with both Atma and Pudgal as one entity.
(2) *These are all mine' - That is known as Swamitva Buddhi ( Farfema gfa) or in other words ownership of the modifications of both Atma and Pudgal combined together. That is the fluctuating levels of Dnyan and Kashayas and modifications of attributes of touch, colour, taste etc. of Pudgal are considered as one's own state. It is also called as Mamatva Buddhi. ममत्व बुद्धि
(3) I am the doer or these are my own activities. Since there is an instrumental cause and effect relation between Jeev and body, when