Agam 01 Ang 01 Acharang Sutra Aayaro Terapanth

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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ĀYARO
In this world there are many who do not have intuitive knowledge (samjña (pertaining to their previous life) such as "Have I migrated (to this world) from the eastern direc
tion,
or from the southern direction, or from the western direction, or from the northern direction, or from the direction above, or from the direction below, or from any other direction, or from any intermediate direction."
8. gainfo o oa safat
अत्थि मे आया ओववाइए, णत्थि मे आया ओववाइए, के अहं आसी? के वा इओ चुओ इह पेच्चा भविस्सामि ?
Evamegesim no nātam bhavati - Atthi me āyā ovavaie, Natthi meāyā ovavāie, Ke ahaṁ asi?
Ke vā io cuo iha peccā bhavissámi. 2. Similarly many (people) do not know
"Does my soul go on reincarnating, or does not my soul go on reincarnating? Who was I (in my previous birth) or after departure from here what shall I become in my next birth?"
ANNOTATIONS 1, 2: We observe that certain phenomena, which we call the phenomena of consciousness, are fundamentally different from the non-conscious or material phenomena. Hence the existence of consciousness (or more precisely, the conscient reality) has been accepted by almost all schools of philosophy, ancient as well as modern.