tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokpa
the Dravya Samgraha —“Really speaking Jivas only enjoy eternal bliss which is their essential characteristic. Therefore, according to Nischaya Naya, a Jiva should only be regarded as an enjoyer of bliss resulting from its characteristic of consciousness. But through the generation of attachment, aversion, etc., Jivas attain such condition that they become ready for the assimilation of matter. It is only in such states of Jivas that there is an influx of matter in them. When there is such an influx of matter the Jivas have to enjoy sorrow and delight, happiness and misery, as these are the fruits of Pudgala Karmas. Thus, really, a Jiva through its characteristic consciousness, is incapable of being affected by happiness or misery -- the fruits of material Karmas. It is only when matter assimilates itself with a Jiva that we see the fruits of material Karmas also in that Jiva, and say that this Jiva is enjoying happiness or misery as the fruits of material Karmas. But it should be remembered that this enjoyment of the fruits of Karma by a Jiva is only apparent, not real. Really speaking Jivas enjoy bliss only, which is the resultant of its characteristic consciousness.” | Thus, it is quite clear that the Jīvas are eternal according to the Jainas and that bliss is inherent with them; but it is obscured and distorted because of the assimilation of the Karmic matter into the Soul. In the state of emancipation the soul transcends the states of worldly pleasures and pains and enjoys
1 Ghosal S. C. : Dravyasamgraha, Vol. I, The Sacred Books of the Jaidas.
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