Ratnamuni Smruti Granth

SR No.: 010772
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma
Publisher: Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 687
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 21 MB

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VAIRAGYA OR RENUNCIATION IN JAINISM
recompense, in ones life without partiality or excuse, which requires no operator or executor for its operation, but is itself the 'Cause' in one time and an 'effect' in the other. This moral law of 'Karama' is believed to be the automatic fulfilment of the result of actions and the course of worldly life and existence No God is regarded as the creator, protector and destroyer of this universe, which is ever-lasting, only subject to minor and catestrophic changes God is only the perfected soul Thus according to Jainism there is a Goodhood of all the perfected Souls and He is one also, as light into light from their one appearance The utility of such a God is positive by virtue of His very existence as is realised by the presence of sun to all living being The sun does not act and give its sunshine and warmth but it simply exists in the realm of the universe after its own nature So the Jainas believe about God and differ in the assignment of worldly function to Him Lord Krishna also said In Gita that "God neither does create the world and the actions of the world nor does he determine what actions shall bear what fruits". Those ignorent to this theory of Karama and action had to introduce an Almighty Creator to meet these problems
Soul in Manly Existence And Its Aim.
According to Jainism, this universe is not illusory It is not a creation of imagination It is a fact and a reality It is an everlasting stage of the display of the soul and non-soul elements Jiva or Soul is the amimate substance having conscionsness as its characteristic and distinguishing feature from the non-soul or nonliving substances The soul is all consciousness with its own remarkable attributes and talents The consciousness is inherent in the soul of a living being in the worldly existence It is realisable to the state of perfection only in human life The consciousness is not the product of the material stimulus in any sense. The stimulus is related to a mundane soul, e. g. in man, it merely awakens man's inherent consciousness, which exists in dormant state, within the soul due to the effect of the adverse past action of the doer soul or of the Karamas over it The stimulus does not create the state of consciousness, but produces a stir or excitement only on the soul's attribute of attentiveness in manly existence This is not at all surprising Matter too possesses many wonderful qualities and properties of its own. The soul and nonsoul substances in worldly existence are considered as Parinamis (inter-effecting, like milk and water, though in reality they are always separate) The soul though entirely different from matter and is separable from its conjugation with it, is, however, termed as 'bound' (Bandh) with the 'Karmic matter (a specially constituted material molcule) in the worldly existence, known as 'Beohar', like milk and water, and so long as it is in conjugation with the Karmic matter it has a close relationship also with it, quite against its true and inherent nature, more or less, in accordance with the gravity of the conjugation thus created.
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