Jain Journal 2008 04 No 04

SR No.: 520270
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 46
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLII, NO.4 APRIL 2008
aham ekko khalu suddo damsanaņānamaiosadārūvi,
ņa vi attha majjha kimci vi annan parumāņumettam pil4 The first verse is very popular and found in all the five texts of Kundakunda. It says that soul is without taste or form or odour and is inexplicable, is with consciousness, is without any gender and you know it like this. In the second verse it says, “I am one, pure, with intuition and knowledge, non concrete. Except my nature of intuition and knowledge, not even an iota of other matter is mine”
Another way of enunciating the difference between soul and living being is that living being is always described as a collection of pure and impure manifestation of its nature but soul is always described as per its just pure nature and without any impurities associated." In the Niyamasāra verses 44-48 say that from absolute viewpoint soul is without bondage, without an attachment, free of all flaws, without any desire or anger or deceit or pride. Even the empirical soul from the absolute viewpoint is like siddhas (existing in the summit of the cosmos) without body or sense organs or destruction and is pure and without any karma attached to it. 9. Method of experiencing the existence of the soul. Jain texts repeatedly suggest / preach that we must experience the nature and existence of soul. This is the only way to destroy delusion. Amrtacandra writes :
ayi kathamapi mrtvā tatvakautūhali san, anubhava bhava mūrteh pārsvavarti muhurtam Prathagadha vilasantan svam samālokya yena
tyajasi jhagiti mūrtyā sākam ekatvamoham's i.e. Meditate upon self, stay contented with selfand be focused on it; you will attain contentment and then bliss, Even Kundakunda has said the same at a number of places in his texts.!?
14. 15. 16. 17.
Samayasāra 38 Niyamasāra 44,48 Samayasāra commentary verse 23 Samayasāra 206