Essentials of Samadhishataka

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

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According to Pujyapad when we are under an impression that our body itself is soul, we fondle and love our body and allow us to get fully soaked into the sensual pleasure. This attraction towards body lodged in our minds the desire for newer bodies; and we {otally forget the supremacy of our root cause the sout in this way owing to the soakedness in the enticement of and condensing ourselves with the body keeps intact the cycle of births and rebirths, and therefore, no hope for deliverence. This round - up. rebirths has been working with the human race perpetually in this world and the whole of living beings has been so heavily loaded under the lure of body that it may until it is in the darkness and illusory and deceptive love of body and worldly life errect itself and walk straight way in a right direction is an absolute impossibility. To misconceive the body for self or variable for eternal is an ignorance which the Jain terminology calls Avidya - Sanskar or inheritance of ignorance. So long as the impressions of ignorance are there, there is