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I am the Soul
217 Here, while enlisting the qualities of the Matarthi, Srimadji has told us how full of delusion is the matarthi's belief about a Guru. In our scriptures while defining a mithyatvi jiva - Fazrat la - a jiva with wrong beliefs, it is said that one who believes in ku Deva, ku Guru and ku dharma is a mithyatvi. In the same way one who does not believe in su Deva, su Guru and su dharma is also a mithyatvi. A matarthi mistakenly believes a ku Guru to be a su Guru; his faith rests in the ku Guru and hence he is called a matarthi. Now let us see what a matarthi thinks about the Deva -
जे जिनदेहप्रमाण ने, समवसरणादि सिद्धि, aufa tutt foraj, trahi The Frot glasa.....pu
In the Jaina sadhana - devoted practice, Arihant Deva is venerable. Every Sadhaka - the practitioner, who performs sadhana places the Jineshwar Bhagwan in the temple of his heart. He expresses his faith in praises and devotion and puts in an effort to achieve the goal.
Matarthi jiva too, may accept Arihant Deva himself as the Deva, but he performs the puja merely by looking at the external features. The Lord Jineshwar does have immeasurable external qualities. The matarthi imagines the true form of Jineshwar in those qualities and believes, salutes, propitiates him. But he never understands the true form of the Jineshwar; neither does he know why only the Jineshwar is worthy of obeisance.
Here the question may arise - why is Jineshwar our Deva?. ... because he is bereft of all passions, he neither has attachment nor aversion. Whatever he says, is with a singular compassion and an impartial view. Hence, such a Jineshwar is our Deva.
राग नथी एने द्वेष नथी एने प्रेम भर्यो पारावार निशदिन कूणां काळजडेथी वहेती करूणानी धार
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