Shrutsagar 2018 09 Volume 05 Issue 04

SR No.: 525338
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba
Publication Year: 2018
Total Pages: 36
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Shrutsagar, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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SHRUTSAGAR
8
Awakening
September-2018
(from past issue...)
Acharya Padmasagarsuri
On account of the impact of the preaching of the Acharyashri, Kumarpal became profoundly influenced by the Jain Dharma or doctrines and discarded his immoral ways. Moreover, he constructed new Jain temples and reconstructed the dilapidated ones. He made a royal proclamation prohibiting the killing of animals and birds. He went on pilgrimages many times. He established at every place a library (of Jain Scriptures) and contributed to the progress and increase of Jains.
The sun of the Jain faith, Jainacharya, Sri Hemachandrasuri shone far in all glory and gave up peacefully his mortal body at the age of 84, in the year of Samvat 1229.
The Jain world was plunged in sorrow on account of this bereavement but we have with us his great works which we can study and from which we can derive enlightenment.
Rightness or Thoroughness
Knowledge is the friend of the soul; but falseness or illusion is its enemy. The Tatvarthsuthra says:
मिथ्यादर्शनाविरति प्रमादकषाययोगा बन्धहेतवः ।
Mithyadarshanavirati pramadakashaya yoga bandhahetavaha | (Illusion, Intemperance; Intoxication (with money and power); Passions and Yoga (evil propensity) are the five causes of bondage. Sri Umaswati who wrote this considered Mithyatwa as a cause of bondage of Karma.
Mithya or illusion takes two forms. The first one is the negligence of Reality; and the secod one is belief in the unreality. The difference between the two is this. The first one can occur also in a stage of total ignorance. The second can occur only in the phase of thoughtfulness. The first type is the unrealized Mithyatwa. This may be found in animals, birds and other creatures which are not thoughtful. The second one is realized Mithyatwa. This is found in thoughtful beings like human beings. The being that can think can have faith; and the faith may be in reality or unreality.
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