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35 74: श्रीपूज्यपादस्वामिकृत
इष्टोपदेश The Discourse Divine Late Mr. Champatrai Jain, Bar-at-Law Vidyavaridhi
यस्य स्वयं स्वभावाप्तिरभावे कृत्स्नकर्मणः ।
तस्मै संज्ञानरूपाय, नमोऽस्तु परमात्मने ॥१॥ He who has attained the purity of his nature by the destruction of all his karmas by his own effort-to such an Omniscient Paramatman salutation is offered.
Note:-Omniscience is the attribute of the Pure and Perfect soul, and is the most essential of divine qualities, which are all implied in it. In Jainism salutation is offered to Divinity not because the devotee expects any boons from the object of his veneration and worship, not because salutation is pleasing to Him who is the embodiment of all divine attributes, not even because such salutation is itself, in any sense, the aim and object of worship, but because, the Paramatman is the Ideal of Perfection for the devotee, who wants to realize it in His own self, and because the adoration of Him who represents the Perfection of Divinity in His own pure being is the only means of attaining to it, at least in the earlier stages of the path.
योग्योपादानयोगेन, दृषदः स्वर्णता मता ।
द्रव्यादिस्वादिसंपत्तावात्मनोऽप्यात्मता मता ॥२॥ As gold in the ore is held to become pure gold on the intervention of the real causes of purification, in the same manner on the attainment to self-nature the impure (unemancipated) soul is also regarded as pure Spirit.
Note :-The impure ego is like gold in the state of ore; both of them possess the potentiality of attaining to purity and perfection, when rid of the adhering impurities. Smelting is the process employed to obtain pure gold from the ore, which means the removal of the non-gold that is found to be mixed up with it. A lump of ore, thus, represents pure gold plus so much dross added to it. In the same way the emancipated soul is pure Spirit plus so much filth or dirt (matter) adhering to it. Hence, when the filth
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