Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

SR No.: 011113
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Total Pages: 155
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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SARVODAYA TIRTHA
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On hearing this, people are taken aback. They think, 'whatever is going to happen to me is with the Lord, and I cannot do anything at my pleasure. I become dependent.' What they forget is that the Lord does not transform anything. The way things have themselves been transformed, the way they transform and the way in which they will undergo transformation is only known to the Lord, nothing more.
Knowledge only knows the other', it does not transform. Just as objects are not subservient to knowledge, so is knowledge not subservient to objects. Both are transformed due to some independent and separate causes In coming within the purview of knowledge, how is the independence of objects transgressed ? If independence is at all transgressed, it is not due to knowledge, but due to ignorance. Knowledge only knows without in anyway interfering in the process of transformation.
Such people do not have a true regard for omniscience, but since it is written in the texts that the Bhagavan is omniscient and all detachment, so they cannot but accept him as omniscient. This is why in explaining an omniscient person, they make a free use of their own imagination They say that what has happened and what is currently happening, the Bhagavan may know for certain but how can he be equally certain about things which are yet to happen They apprehend that to ac certain things which are yet to happen, the independence is violated They say that when future is uncertain, how can it be known for certain, and this makes omniscience not absolute, but somewhat diluted.
Knowledge is not uncertain, but very much certain If future is accepted to be uncertain, then, the sciences like astronomy will appear to be mere flight of imagination For instance, the eclipse of the sun is announced years before and they come out to be true The Jaina texts contain innumerable forecasts about things to happen after a gap of several hundred thousand years and these forecasts are emphatic. If the sure knowledge of the future is questioned, then all the texts will appear to be crumbling to the ground. So in the understanding of the nature of a true god, it is extremely important to determine what omniscience stands for; for this is the very root of religion.