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denies the possibility of simultaneous occurrence of two-fold experience. The Trairätikas were those who believed in the three categories of Jiva, Ajiva and No-jiva instead of the two, viz., Jiva and Ajiva as accepted in the Agamas. Sadūlūka was their ācārya, who is said to have invented the third category in order to defeat his opponent by confronting him with a new problem. But afterwards when he was asked by his guru to admit the trick before the judges, he disagreed and was consequently turned out of the Sangha. The Abaddhikas upheld that the Karma-matter can only touch the soul, but cannot become one with it, because if it became one with the soul, there would be no possibility of re-separation. This doctrine openly goes against the accredited view that Karma unites with the soul exactly as heat unites with iron and water with milk. Goṣṭhāmāhila was the acarya of the Abaddhikas.
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The sects founded by these nihnavas, it appears from the accounts given, did not survive their founders. The accounts further reveal the fact that the Jaina Sangha was strong enough to foil the attempts of these dissenters at bringing about any untoward change in it.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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