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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JIVA
203 enforced his words by dialogues, parables, fables, reiterations and repetitions. Here is a parable for example. Three merchants set out on their travels, each with his capital; one of them gained there much, the second returned with his capital and the third merchant came home after having lost his capital. This parable is taken from common life ; learn 10 apply it to the Law. The capital is human life, the gain is heaven &c. (The Uttaradhyayana * Lec. VI) In short Lord Mahavira will always occupy a foremost place among the benefactors of humanity. Perhaps he was the first thinker to recognise the many sidedness of truth and to emphasise the necessity of studying it from all standpoints,
JIVA
BY Harisatya Bhattacharya, M.A, B.L.
(Continued from .page 195.)
- The Jiva of Eight Kinds. W ith reference to the eight attributes of the Soul, it is said
V to be of eight modes. The eight kinds of the Karma also, accuunt for the eight modifications of the Soul.
The eight natural attributes of the soul are as follows. (1) The Soul has 'knowledge' (Jnana). (2) It has the power of 'perception (Darsana). (3) It is possessed of 'power' (Virya). (4) It is 'minute' (Surshmalva). (5) 'Interpenetrability' (Avagahana) is another attribute of Souls. (6) The Soul is neither heavy nor light '(Agaralaghutua). (7) 'Right Faith' (Samyakııa) is an essential attribute of the Jiva. (8) It is also possessed of 'equanimity' (Adyadadha). Although, however, these are natural attributes of the soul, they are not always explicit in it because it has been perverted by the dirt of Karma since the beginningless time; these qualities become manifest
* Dr Jacobi in a foot-note to his translation (S. B. E. Vol. 45) says that this Parable closely corresponds to Matth. XXV. 14. Luke XIX. 11.
and that this coincidence gives rise to some problems Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat