Hem Sangoshthi

Author(s): Shilchandrasuri
Publisher: Kalikal Sarvagya Shri Hemchandracharya Navam Janmashatabdi Smruti Sanskar Shikshannidhi Ahmedabad

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છે અને તેથી તેમને માનવું પડ્યું હોય કે મુક્ત જીવો ફરીથી સંસારમાં આવે છે અને પરિણામે જગત જીવોથી ખાલી નથી થતું. ૧૦
છેવટે સંક્ષેપમાં જૈન સિદ્ધાન્ત અને સ્યાદ્વાદનું પ્રતિપાદન છે. વસ્તુ પ્રતિક્ષણ ઉત્પાદ-વિનાશ-
પ્રયુક્ત છે એવું પ્રત્યક્ષથી જણાય છે. પ્રત્યેક વસ્તુ અનંતધર્માત્મક છે. વસ્તુમાં અનંત ધર્મો ન હોય તો તેનું સત્ત્વ જ ઘટે નહિ.૨ વસ્તુ દ્રવ્યપર્યાયાત્મક છે. વસ્તુગત દ્રવ્ય (સામાન્ય) ઉપર દષ્ટિ કેન્દ્રિત કરીએ તો 20. It is thus clear that for some Ajivika schools a any rate,
nirvana was not the end. Sin penetrated even beyond the bounds of the universe, and was still liable to drag back the emancipated soul for another round of 8,400,000 mahakalpas in samsara....
Nilakeci states explicitly that the doctrine of mandala, the return of souls from the highest bliss, was devised in face of the objections we have suggested above to the older Ajivika cosmic theories. In a given place there is a limited number (of souls), and so by devising (the doctrine of) mandala the Ajivikas remove objections, bringing back (the saved souls). The elliptical verse is much expanded by the commentator Vamanamuni, who makes it clear that the Ajivikas postulated the doctrine to allow for the continuity of the universe. But for that purpose, he continues, it is quite unnecessary, for the number of jivas or living souls in the universe is infinitely infinite (anantanantam), and no subtraction from the total can make it less than infinity. The Jaira commentator's logic is sound, but we have no confirmation that the Ajivikas did actually believe that the number of souls in the universe was infinite. The sharply defined an classified nature of the Ajivika cosmos, and the Ajivika predilection for very high numbers, suggest that the total number of souls in the universe was considered to be finite, as the Jaina commentator's insistence on the infinity of souls also indicates.
History and Doctrines of the Ajivikis, A. L. Basham, Delhi
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