Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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and never directs back to Samsara.
The self that possesses infinite knowledge and is identified with ultimate bliss is itself the
moksha मोक्ष आत्मा सखं नित्यः. When man has achieved such a state of mind as he has become fully indifferent towards pleasure and all worldly temptations, there and then arises Absolute knowledge, the Kevaldnyana. One thing should be clear here that the language, that the absolute knowledge arises and disappears, is a figurative one and it should not be stretched or construed word to word in a scholastic manner. in jain view the enlightenment or Absolute knowledge is the very essence or nature of the self but owing to the karama-force the knowledge gets obscured and stained directing towards illusions and confusion thereby blindness of suchness and lack of reflective power.
To realise the nature of self we have to experience the full vision of those who are enlightened souls, and this is the first stage in the realising directions, without which our efforts