Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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body exist, naturally the substances bearing these names ought to exist. Since the unaligned names are different, the substances bearing these titles are also of seperate existence. When the person is alive the body is active and is not eaten up by worms and ants, but when it becomes a corpse, it begins to get rotten and it finally decays. It is Atman which is the cause for all bodily activity and only due to it, the body does not decay when alive. As ghee is inherent in milk so also the soul abides in the body. By inference one is to acknowledge the presence of consciousness in this material body
As soon as Vayubhuti's doubt was cleared Vayubhuti surrendered to the Lord along with his 500 disciples and got initiated as the Lord's major disciple. He was also imparted the Tripadi based on which he created the "Dvadashangi”.
When Vyaktabhuti, the fourth of the eleven great scholars heard the news of the three great scholars, Indrabhuti, Agnibhuti and Vayubhuti become the Lord's disciples after getting their respective doubts cleared, he too, with eagerness and enthusiasm started on his journey to the Samavasarana. The Lord revealed Vyaktabhuti's doubt and the vedic base of it
"स्वप्नोपमं वैसकलं इत्येष ब्रहविधिरंजसा विज्ञेयः ॥"
The Lord said, "Oh Vyaktabhuti, the above statement is the cause of your doubt about the existence of the five Mahabhutas. You have interpreted the meaning of the verse to be as follows, "Undoubtedly the world is like a dream which is unreal and nonexistent. Hence one should instantly observe it in order to know the supreme soul and achieve the goal of "Parabrahma”. As a dream is unreal, so also the world constituted of the five elements is also unreal. Though the elements like the dream are visible, they do not exist in the real sense of existence. At the same time in another context, the vedas have propounded the existence of the five