Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 3

SR No.: 008004
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 586
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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Gapadharavāda
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Moreover, O Agnibhūti! you entertain Karman by hearing sentences such of the Vedas. According to you, sentences is as follows:
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doubt as regards
as purusa èvèdam sarvam the interpretation of those
Everything that is animate and inanimate, past and future, movable and immovable, distant and near, interior and exterior everything that is nourished by food, and one who is the lord of mokṣa-all this is purusa and purusa alone. No other object as Karman exists as distinct from this purusa.
Similarly, according to you, sentences such as vijñāna.. ghana" also establish the non-existance of Karman. Because, in both the above-mentioned padas you interpret " èva " as referring to tha non-existence of Karman
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Your interpretation of the Veda-padas is not correct. Sentences like "purusa èvèdam" etc. are meant to praise the atman and to establish the advaita-bhāva in order to avoid the arrogance of jati etc. but they are not the non-existence of Karman.
meant to establish
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Sentences are generally divided into three kinds :-(1) Vidhivadapara i. e., sentences that are laid down as rules. (2) Arthavadapara i. e., sentences that are laid down as the explanatory remarks and (3) Anuvadapara i e., sentences that are laid down as explanatory repetitions-" Agnihotram juhuyāt svargakāmaḥ" is an example of vidhivāda. Arthavāda is of two kinds :-(1) Stuti-arthavada and (2) Ninda arthavāda. Sentences such as "purnṣa èvèdam sarvam 19 etc., well as those "Sa sarvavid yasyaisa mahima bhuvi vivyd brahmapurè hyèṣā vyomni ātmāsu pratiṣṭhitamaksarnm vèdyatè yastu sa sarvajña sarvavit sarvamèvavivèśa and " kayā pūrṇayahūtyā sarvān kāmānavāpnoti" etc., are also the examples of stuti-arthavāda.
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Again you may raise a question as to why the sentences like " 'dkayā parṇayā" etc. be not taken as the illustrations