Tulsi Prajna 2002 01

SR No.: 524610
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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subsidence of deluding karma, purity of perception (purity of aura), the process of speculation, elimination (of doubt), investigation, intensive search."
The special subsidence of deluding karma is illustrated in Namipavvajjā in the Uttaradhyayana. There it is said that Nami remembered the past life on account of the subsidence of deluding karma.?
On account of his purity of perceplion, Mrgāputra got the memory of his past life simply at the sight of a monk. here the cause is mentioned to be the subsidence of the deluding karma and purification of the perceptive faculty simultaneously." Similarly, Harikesabala also had the memory of past life while engrossed in reflection. In the introduction to the chapter on Cifrasambhūti, there is mention of the memory of the past life.10 Both the sons of Bhrgupurohita, simply at the sight of a monk, acquired the memory of their past life, and also recollected their practice of penance and selfrestraint. 11
Realising that the faith in religion and desire for liberation are easily nourished by the memory of the past life, Lord Mahāvīra led many people recollect their past life. When Meghakumāra was in the point of reverting to the householders life, the Lord reminded him of the third life in the past, 12 which produced in him the memory of his past rational lives due to beneficial psychical processes, auspicious perception with aura gradually purified. This was the result of speculation, elimination, investigation and intensive search due to the elimination-cum-subsidence of relevant karmic veils. 13 The memory of the past life arose in Sudarśana Śresthi too in the same manner. 14
The third auxilary cause consisting of speculation, elimination, investigation and intensive search is illustrated by the memory that occurred to Meghkumāra as soon as he heard the name of Meruprabha elephant. There started 'speculalion' in his mind about the elephant. As a result, there was some agitation in his mind to know the elephant. Thereafter the process of elimination started with the querty-- "Ilad I been an elephant in the past''? In the process of ratiocination, he entered the state of investigation. In other words, he entered the area of past experience in order to search out the event in his past life. While reflecting on the past, he embarked upon the state of 'intensive research'. Even as a cow reaches the grazing posture visited earlier, while engaged in search of fodder, Meghakumära gained the memory of his elephant-life by investigating through concentrated investigation.
The memory of the past life arises on account of some specific event, or without such evenl. The memory that arises simply on account of the IMET Ugla - HFC, 2002 C
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