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PRABUDHH JEEVAN: MAHATMA GANDHI NA SAHYATRO VISHESHSNK
FEBRUARY 2016
ESSENCE OF LIBERATION (NINE TATTVAS)
ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF BY SELF STUDY OF JAINOLOGY
LESSON-ELEVEN
PH મહાત્મા ગાંધીજીના સહયાત્રીઓ વિશેષાંકણ મહાભા&
O DR. KAMINI GOGRI
In the following article we will study about the with kārmika matter. In common parlance, Jiva is eleventh topic: Essence of Liberation (Nine Tattvas) translated as soul or living being. An average Introduction
individual, due to ignorance, regards his body as his Total release of karmika matter from the self soul and all thoughts and attention to keep it in e (soul) by self-realization is liberation / emancipation/ comfort. The root cause of our suffering lies in our salvation. Everybody feels pain in transmigration and ignorance of the essential characteristics of our soul. wants to eliminate this pain.
According to Jain philosophy, living being is e Right belief - knowledge - conduct together neither created nor destroyed. As already indicated,
constitutes the path of liberation. Umā Svāmi, living being and non-living being are the two Š the Ācārya revered by all sects of Jains, wrote an substance types which comprise the universe. The
important text in Sanskrit in the first century AD. primary characteristic of living being This text called TattvārathSutra, considered as Bible is consciousness that distinguishes it from non-living of Jains, has ten chapters and 357 sutras. This text being. Attentiveness is its inherent feature, as without is also called as text for attaining liberation it, it cannot have conation. It is the prerequisites of
(Moksa Sāstra). TattvārathaSutra starts with the any kind of knowledge. ૬ following sutra:
1.1 Distinctive characteristics of Jiva, (Living Samyagdarśanajñānacāritrāņimokscamārgah' (TS being) છે |/1)
The further distinctive characteristics of living UmāSvāmi defined right belief as firm belief in being mentioned by Umā Svāmi in TattvārathSutra is S the true nature of the principles/ verities/tattvas. Upayogo laksanam (TS/11/8)
Right belief arises from the innate disposition or by i.e. manifestation of consciousness is the acquisition of right knowledge. The living being (jiva), distinctive feature of the jiva. That, which arises from the non living beings (ajíva), influx {āsrava), bondage both internal and external causes and concomitant
(bandha), stoppage (sanvara), dissociation (nirjarā) Z and liberation (mokşa) constitute the seven tattvas / | ‘પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન’ હવે ડિજિટલ સ્વરૂપે ઉપલબ્ધ verities. Sutras 2nd and 4th from first chapter of
૧૯૨૯ થી માર્ચ ૨૦૧૫ સુધી ‘પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવનના બધાં જ Tattvārtha Sutra define right belief and verities. Tattvārthasraddhānan samyagdarśanam.
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(TS/1/2, 3) વાંચી શકશો. તેમજ ડી.વી.ડી. સ્વરૂપે પણ આ બધાં અંકો This classification of the fundamental principles
ઉપલબ્ધ છે. into seven verities is metaphysical with overtones
જિજ્ઞાસુ અને પુસ્તકાલયોને આ ડી.વી.ડી. વિના મૂલ્ય અમે up of spiritual values. To these seven verities, merit (punya) and demerit (pāpa) have been added and
અર્પણ કરીશું. the nine verities called padārthas giving them a આ ડી.વી.ડી.ના સૌજન્યદાતા flavour of religious content.
૧. ફોરમ ઑફ જૈન ઈન્ટેલેકસ્યુઅલ 1. Jiva, the living being
- હસ્તે-અંજના રશ્મિકુમાર ઝવેરી અને મયૂર વોરા. In this world, we do not meet jiva or pure soul as such. Jiva or the living being is a mix of pure
| ૨. નિર્મળાનંદ જ્યોત, રેખા-બકુલ નંદલાલ ગાંધી soul and non-living being i.e. pure soul bonded
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