Book Title: ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 04
Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
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directions. [78] He experiences bliss, which is super sensuous, unique, infinite, and interminable. [79] Whatever issues from him is potent enough to abrogate the miseries of tormented humanity. (80) His presence is supremely enlightening. He is the spiritual leader of society. 18! Just as a mother educates her child for its benefit and a kind physician cures diseased orphans, so also the perfected mystic instructs humanity for its uplift and dispenses spiritual pills to the suffering humanity. 182He is always awake.83] He has transcended the dualities of friends and foes, pleasure and pain, praise and censure, life and death, sand and gold, attachment and aversion. 184 Since he is the embodiment of spiritual virtues, he leads a life of super-moralism but not of amoralism. Thus we may conclude by saying that the cognitive, conative and affective tendencies of the perfected mystic reveal their original manifestation in supreme mystical experience, which is ineffable and transcends all the similes of the world. [86]
References:
[1] Pravacanas ra of Kundakunda, I. 14. (R jacandra rama, g sa) [2] Dravyasa graha, 50, 51 (Jaina Vidy Sa sthana, ri Mah vraj). [3] Bhagavat r dhan , 2144 (Praka Chand ila Canda Jain, C dan Cauka, Delhi). [4] Ibid. 27 [5] Mok a P huda of Kundakunda, 5. (Pāțani Digambara Jaina Granthamālā, Mārotha, under the
title "Asta P huda) [6] Pravacanas ra, II. 2. [7] Yogadrstisamuccaya of Haribhadra, 178. (L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad) [8] Ibid. 8 [9] Puru rthasidhyup ya of Am tacandra, 44, (R jacandra rama, g sa).
rama, g sa).
[10] Pa c stik ya of Kundakunda, 38-39, (R jacandra [11] Pravacanas ra I. 16. [12] Jn n ava of ubhacandra, XXIV, 3. (R jacandra
rama, g sa).
[13] Rjav rtika of Akala ka,, I. 1/38 (Bh rat ya Jñāna Pitha, New Delhi). [14] Mok a P huda, 4, 7.
[15] Yoga ataka of Haribhadra, Hindi edition, P. 111 (Gujar ta Vidy sabh, Ahmedabad). [16] Yogabindu of Haribhadra, 31, 252, 366. (L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad).
[17] The type of enlightenment accruing from eight D i may respectively be compared to the type
of light given out by the sparks of straw fire, cow-dung fire, wood fire, the light of a lamp, the lustre of a gem, the light of a star, the light of the sun, and the light of the moon (Yogad" "isamuccaya 15). Thus it varies from the indistinct enlightenment to the most distinct one. The first four drstis (Mitr, Tr Bal, and D pr ) occur in the stage of Apunarbandhaka (Mithy drsti in transition) hence they are unsteady, while the last four, in the stages of
Samyagdrstiand C ritr, hence they are steady. [18] Yogadrstisamuccaya, 13, 19, 178. (19) Mysticism by Underhill, P. 169. (Methuen, London).
[20] Gommattas ra J vak da of Nemicandra, 17 (Bh rat ya Jnāna Pitha, New Delhi).
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