Atmanushasana

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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dealt from many points of view, spreading with foliage of (sound) counsel, having hundreds of extensive branches of rules of Logic, and whose roots of sensitive knowledge have spread far and deep.
तदेव तदतद्रूपं प्राप्नुवन्न विरस्यति ।
इति विश्वमनायतं चिन्तयेद्विश्ववित्सदा ॥ १७१ ॥
171. One, (versed in all the Principles of Jainism should ever think that this universe is without a beginning and without an end. It is never destroyed; it remains the same (with reference to continuity of its substances) and not the same (having regard to modifications in the forms of substances). एकमेकक्षणे सिद्धं श्रौव्योत्पत्तिव्ययात्मकम् ।
अबाधितान्येतत्प्रत्ययान्यथानुपपत्तितः ॥ १७२॥
172. It is an established truth that a substance is possessed of the three qualities of continuity (Dhrauvya) rise, (Utapada), and decay (Vyaya) at one and the same time, otherwise (we) cannot have the irrefutable belief that (a thing is) the same and a different one (at the same time).
न स्थास्नु न क्षणविनाशि न बोधमात्रं नाभावमप्रतिहत प्रतिभासरोधात् ।
तत्त्वं प्रतिक्षण भवन्तदतत्स्वरूपमाद्यन्तहीनमखिलं च तथा यथैकम् ॥१७३॥
173. Substance (in principle) is neither (altogether) permanent nor destructible, at every moment, nor knowable alone, nor (merely) non-existent, because (a one-sided view) is not irrefutably demonstrated. (Substance) is at every moment, the same and not the same, and without beginning and without end. ( This is ) as (true) with regard to all (substances) as (it is) with regard to one. ज्ञानस्वभावः स्यादात्मा स्वभावावाप्तिरच्युतिः । तस्मादच्युतिमाकांक्षन् भावयेव्ज्ञान भावनाम् ॥ १७४॥