Jain Journal 1969 10

SR No.: 520016
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 64
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL
(4) Vibhāva guna vyañjana paryāya of soul :
Similarly in all the mundane souls in all the four kinds of beings, for reasons stated above, this slow and feeble vyañjana paryāya does not set up any powerful vibration. There is absence of vibrating energy and the energy-carrying waves. Even the other emanating and reflecting waves do not reach the vyañjana paryāya to be tuned up directly for the following reasons. Vyañjana paryāya undergoes wobbling, curtailment and neutralization and there is also the obstruction of the destructive karma matter. From the different external waves coming within the reach of the sense organs, the windows of the mundane soul, a minor range of wave lengths of a few variety of waves are received and passed on by them amplified within the reach of vibhāva vyañjana paryāya. These amplified waves are tuned up by the vibhāva vyañjana paryāya. It imposes that much data on the mundane soul. The mundane soul converts this limited data and it possesses a limited knowledge and perception of the external world. This is vibhāva guna vyañjana paryāya of the soul.
From this it will now be quite clear that vyañjana paryāya is the sole cause for the soul's possession of knowledge. In the case of liberated souls vyañjana paryāya needs no external stimulus. Its own expanding waves are self-sufficient. Such independent knowledge is termed pratyakşa jñāna (direct knowledge). Mundane soul's knowledge is dependent on the energy waves of external sources and sense organs and therefore it is paroksa jñāna (indirect knowledge). The soul's knowledge of the external universe and substances or other objects are helped by the agurulaghu șat-guņi hāni výddhi paryāya existing in them and the individual soul for possession of knowledge of itself it has the aid of its own aguru laghu şat-guņī hāni výddhi paryāya. The liberated soul because he needs no emanating or reflecting (bouncing back) energy wave stimulus of any external source, knows himself and all the infinite eternal objects, when the mundane soul knows only limited external objects as it depends on the sense organs and the external sources of energy waves that are of material origin and gross : that does not reveal non-material substances as well as distant, minute and objects out of view or covered ones. Therefore knowledge of the mundane soul is devoid of self knowledge, and is inadequate and imperfect.
Every substance possesses infinite attributes, common and special. The principal positive special attributes of the souls are four and likewise of matter. Souls' four principal positive special attributes are infinite knowledge (ananta jñāna), infinite perception (ananta darśana), infinite