Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE Abbigraha mithyatva is not English, but it may be convenient to use these words ; they mean sticking to a false belief, and are concerned with the kind of being we make ourselves when all our thoughts, words, and deeds are preceded by this condition of the mind. In order that we may not be sticking to false beliefs about life and the universe we must examine the beliefs into which we were born; if we do not do this and see whether or not they are reasonable, we may be sticking io false beliefs without even suspacting that they are false.
The belief that God is man's maker must therefore be examined to see if it is a reasonable belief. And the above ideas help us to see the truth of the matter. We do our own deeds and our deeds inake us what we are ; in doing we are existing, our existence is our doing, if my doing does not exist then I do not exist. It is obviously quite impossible for one being to put another being's deeds into the universe ; volitions cannot be imparted; volition is exercised not imparted.
We are what we ought not to be; and it is not likely that supposing God made us he would make us what we ought not to be ; so it is obvious that we make ourselves.
If God made man, and man is a doer of evil deeds, it follows that the theory implies that God made doers of evil deeds, which is absurd; it is more reasonable to see that man makes himself what he is by doing what he does.
If we say that man could not do deeds if he did not already exist, and that someone must have brought him into existence or he could not do deeds, we shall make a statement which looks as though it were true, But perhaps it will not look so true if we can say that man could not exist if he did not do deeds, where there are no deeds there is no existence, and the existence of a doer previous to his doing is never found in the universe, at least this appears to be so without going into the detail of it.
We know that our own volitions are not brought into us by an outsider, the impossibility of our ablities being given to us by an outsider is particularly clear in the case of our volitions, our own doing is something which we do not get from outsiders,
whether the outsider be called God or by any other name. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat