Anekant 2019 Book 72 Ank 07 to 09

SR No.: 538072
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jaikumar Jain
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 2019
Total Pages: 100
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Anekant, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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72/3, Tals-fakar, 2019
THE ULTIMATE FREEDOM
Acarya Kundakunda says that as per the Shuddha Naya the Soul is completely free and untouched from the Karmas 16 - Suddhanayassa du jeeve abaddhaputtham havadi kammam. Declaring the prime independence of the Soul Acarya Kundakunda says in Samayasara that the Soul is Independent or Dependent is all matter of various points of view; the fact is the Soul is Nayateeta", beyond Naya. Being Nayateeta means to become utmost independent. Being free from any problem, obstacle, or interference is the Soul's Independence, Prime Independence.
Narrating the prime Independence from the other point of view Acarya Kundakunda says - unlike the Papa Karmas make the Soul Dependent even the Punya Karmas also do the same in spite of being good, favourable, likely and affectionative. All the Karmas are non-self and the attachment and contact with the non-self or Pudgala destructs the Self dependency - Sovanniyam pi niyalam bandhadi kalayasam pi jaha purisam Bandhadi evam jivam suhamasuham va kadam kammam ||18
Kundakundacarya illustrates explaining that Bondage is Bondage itself let the shackles be of iron or gold. Hence, the actual independence is in being entirely free from bondage both the good and bad. According to Rai Bahadur J. L. Jaini -
From pure point of view, good and bad are equally undesirable, equally mundane and worthy of renunciation. The soul's safety lies in itself. Safety here does not lie in numbers. It lies in loneliness. The meditation of oneness of loneliness (Ekatva Anupreksha), has its teaching for its highest meaning. The soul must realize its full independence by realizing that it accomplishes its aim only when, and in so far as, it is absorbed in itself. Then alone, matter is important and non-self stands for aloof, incapable of attacking the soul or attaching itself to it. Any intermission of this self