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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
having obtained, by the power of knowledge of the 'Quodammodo doctrine (syadvada), this its own true nature eternal in every Self." (PS Kalash 21)
"All that truth, high and low, which has here in no low tones been proclaimed, was once in [has been consummated in) consciousness (chit), like the oblation in the [sacrificial] fire (read bhutkalpam). May consciousness experience it to the full, since here is only consciousness and nothing else; the one supreme reality is consciousness.” (PS Kalash 22)
Here ends the commentary, The Lamp of Truth.
NOTE
1. The translation of the two quotations in the Prakrit language, as given
byBarend Faddegon (given below) is not at all proper and is, in fact, very damaging to Jainism. It appears to be based on his ignorance of Prakrit and failure on his part to understand the correct meanings of words “para-samaya”, “savvaha” and “kahanchiť and their significance in properly understanding the Jaina Doctrines, particularly Syadvada. Faddegon's translation of the two quotations (cited from Gommatsara Karmakanda, verses 894-895) is given below: "So many speakers, so many expositions of methods (naya): so many expositions of methods, so many heterodox systems.” "The word of the heterodox systems is, in whatever way stated, false; but the word of the Jainas is, however stated (from any point of view), perfect (samyak)."
