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96 :: Śramaņa, Vol 66, No. 3, July-September 2015 conscious activities of a kevalin. The great Digambara Ācārya Kundakunda' clearly admits the simultaneous occurrence of jñāna and darśana of a kevalin and mentions that the jñāna and darśana of a kevalin occur simultaneously as the light and heat of the sun occurs. Pūjyapāda Devanandi'? follows to Kundakunda. He, interpreting jñāna as sākāra (determinate) and darśana as anākāra (indeterminate) says that they occur in succession in chadmastha (a person under the influence of obstructive karmas) and simultaneously in the nirāvarana (a person completely free from the obstructive karmas). The great logician Siddhasena Divākara for the first time refused to admit the separate entity of jñāna and darśana because of logical difficulty. Siddhasena Divākara, defining the two- jñāna and daśana says that: 'Darśana' is the cognition of the general and jñāna means the cognition of particular.
jam samaņņagahaņaṁ dansaņameyaṁ visesiyam
doņaham viņayāņa eso padekkaṁ atthapajjāvo//'4 In Jainism the term darśana as used in the Jaina scriptures is a technical one. It has got two special meanings. One meaning of it, is Indistinct consciousness (nirākāra-upayoga) and the other is faith (śraddhā). As regards the first meaning, the meaning of darśana is not Nirākāra-upayoga which is totally different from distinct knowledge (sākāra-upayoga). But the knowledge (jñāna) can be from another point of view also styled as darśana." Siddhasena syas that we can distinguish between jñāna and darśana up to the stage of manahparyāya. In Kevala-jñāna, however, jñāna and darśana are identical.
maņapajjavaņāṇanto ņāṇassa ya darisaņassa ya veseso/
kevalaņāņaṁ puņa dansaņas ti ņāņam ti ya samāņaṁ//"6 According to Siddhasena Divākara, those who believe in the authority of the scriptures, maintain that the Jina does not know and intuit simultaneously, make their Tīrtharkara flout or subject of mockery. He argues that if kevala-jñāna dawns on the complete destruction of the relevant obscuring karmas, it stands to reason that kevala-darśana
| SR No. | 525093 |
| Book Title | Sramana 2015 07 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sundarshanlal Jain, Ashokkumar Singh |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 2015 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 13 MB |