Jain Journal 1993 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1993
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Anandaboda's Refutation
Anandabodha Yati (1150 A.D.), a Sankarite philosopher in his celebrated work Nyayamakaranda' puts forth the Jaina view as pūrva. paksa for refutation. He presents the Jaina view without mentioning the name of the school as : anye tu pralinanikhilopádheḥ kṣetrajñasya satatordhagatilaksanaṁ18 (final release consists of the permanent rising up of the individual self whose entire limiting adjuncts are at rest). But his commentator Citsukhācārya informs us by saying that the above view is of Jaina, Jainamatamäha, 14 Anandabodha refutes this view by arguing that since the doctrine of madhyamaparimina (mediocre size) of the jiva is not accepted by the Advaita school, the Jaina view advocating final liberation as eternal going up of the individual soul does not stand to reason. 15
Further. Ānandabodha mentains that the eternal going up cannot be conducive to liberation (moksa) because it is the cause of great worriness. On the other hand it deserves to be induced among those which bring disaster. 16
This exposition of Anandabodha of the Jaina view is not faithful to the original Jaina texts. We saw in the above going pages that conception of moksa as satataŭrdhagati is not in fact said by the Jaina thinkers which finds place in Anandabodha's exposition. The Jaina school admits ürdhagati (upward movement) of Jiva after his complete liberation. When the Jiva attains freedom, it rises higher and higher and reaches the summit of lokākāśa which is called the region of the free and liberated. To this effect, Dr. Robert remarks “Jaina view that mukti consists in the everlasting upward movement of the soul (which the Jainas have never said, and which is a misrepresentation of how the Jainas conceive of the condition of the Soul in the few moments immediately following death in the final incarnation,"17 Radhakrishnan
12 Published with Pramānamala and Nyāyadi pavali of the same author in Chau.
khamba Sanskrit Series, Benaras, 1907. 13 Nyayamakaranda, p. 270. 14 Ibid. 15 Ibid., p. 281. 10 Ibid. 17 Zydonbos. Robert J., "On the Jaina Background of Dvaita Vedānta", Journal of
Indian Philosophy 1991, p. 259; cf. Zydenbos, Robert J, "Moksa in Jainism according to Umasväti", wiedbaden Fr, Steiner, 1983, Beitrage Zur sudasien Forschung, sudasien-Institute Universitat Heidelberg, Bd. 83, pp. 21, 26-27, 36-7; Tattvärtha-sutra X. 5; also see, The Sarva Dar sona Sangraha of Madha vācārya, edited by K. L. Joshi, Parimal Publications, Delhi, p. 77.