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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir Atman and Moka for good '; while that which flows towards Birth and Rebirth, through the valley of non-discrimination is said to 'flow for evil'. Dispassion serves to attenuate the flow through worldly objects, and the the practice of discrimination serves to enliven the flow through discriminative wisdom. In this way the Inhibition of the Functions of the Mind' is dependent upon both Practice and Dispassion.". The mind being active and receptive is subject to attraction by external objects, and it chus gets entangled into them, and it results in false impression that the soul perceives the objects, and that the soul is happy and unhappy when it receives favourable and unfavourable. impressions. It is said in the commentary on the Saryadars'anasangraha - That the soul cannot suffer; for it is free from such (nirlepatvat-fauceta). The Jīva or the soul never suffers nor does it make others suffer. What really suffers (tapyaḥ-247:) is the soul reflected in the sāttvic buddhi or the pure intellect.... Still it said that the soul suffers.... The fools think that when the sättvic buddhi suffers the soul that reflects in it and assumes the form of it in its reflection, suffers.... Even learned people hold that the Purusa or the soul experiences by means of reflection.... Just as the sun by reflecting itself in water gives to the water its lustre, similarly the soul gives the quality of experiencing to the buddhi(Citta) in which it reflects .... Knowing consists in assuming the shape of the objects of knowledge. Such shapes are 1 Jha Ganganath : Parañjala Yoga Sūtrani. See Com. by Vyasa on Sutra 12|27, p. 129. For Private And Personal
SR No.020053
Book Titletman_and_moksa
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorG N Joshi
PublisherGujarat University
Publication Year1965
Total Pages901
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size12 MB
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