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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Vada] Gañadharavāda
165: टीका-इह यो जातसरो जीवः स प्राग्भविकशरीरविगमेऽपि सति न विगत इति प्रतिज्ञा । 'सरणाउ त्ति' मरणादिति हेतुः। यथा बालजाती बालजन्मनि वृत्तं स्मरतीति बालजातिसरणो वृद्ध इति दृष्टान्तः। यथा वा, खदेशे मालवकमध्यदेशादौ वृत्तं विदेशेऽपि गतो नरः सरन् न विगतः। इदमुक्तं भवति-योऽन्यदेश-कालाधनुभूतमर्थं सरति सोऽविनष्टो दृष्टः, यथा बालकालानुभूतानामर्थानामनुसः वृद्धाद्यवस्थायां देवदत्तः। यस्तु विनष्टो नासौ किश्चिदनुस्मरति, यथा जन्मानन्तरमेवोपरतः । न च पूर्वपूर्वक्षणानुभूतमाहितसंस्कारा उत्तरोत्तरक्षणाः सरन्तीति वक्तव्यम्, पूर्व-पूर्वक्षणानां सर्वनिरन्वयविनाशेन सर्वथा विनष्टत्वात् , उत्तरोत्तरक्षणानां सर्वथाऽन्यत्वात् । न चान्यानुभूतमन्योऽनुस्मरति, देवदत्तानुभूतस्य यज्ञदत्तानुसरणप्रसङ्गादिति ॥ १२३॥ (१६७१)
D. C.--Here, the proposition is that tho Soul that remembers former existence, cannot vanish even after the disappearance of the former body, by virtue of its smaragasakti. Just as an old person who remembers his state of childhood does not himself perish even if childhood has vanished, or just as a person who recolleots in & foreign country the incidents that happened in his own country, does not himself perish even if the incidents are no more existing, 80, also, the Soul that remembers former existence does not vanish even if the body of former existence has already vanished. In short, one who recollects incidents that happened in former time and place, is vidyamana (existing) like Devadatta who is able to recollect his experiences of childhood in old age. But, if he be only the anusmartā nothing can be recolted in the next life, as he himself is not alive in that existence.
Again, it is not correct to say that all experiences of former moments are recollected in the later moments, as former moments are absolutely separate from the later moments and they disappear as soon as their relations with the later 'ones disappear.