Jain Legend Vol 2

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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am listening”, 'I listened', 'I will listen'. In these, the echo of I convinces the person about the existence of his soul”.
Perceiving the doubt in Indrabh ti's heart regarding the canonical literary evidence, Lord Mah v ra cleared it immediately, “Gautama! The root cause for your doubt is because you did not understand the underlying meaning of Vedic c s.
"Ne ha vai ar rasyasatah priy priyay repahatirasti a ar ram v vasam
te priy priye na spatah ” and “Swargak mo yajeta”
From the above sentences of Veda, the existence of soul is proved.
On the other hand, "Vi i anadhana yevaitebhyo bhutaibhyah samutth ya t nyev nu vina yati, na pretya samj sti” explains the echo of soul and body.
Both these statements were considered by you as contradictory to one another. And hence, your doubt about the existence of the soul arose. Gautama, you did not understand the meaning of the last sentence of Veda. Let me explain it to you”.
The real meaning of Vij naghana
The soul ( tm ) is the embodiment of knowledge & philosophy and is termed as Vij naghana. tm , the epitome of knowledge when it looks at the objects, say like, pot and cloth, it acquires the knowledge about them. When its attention gets diverted to other objects like trees, fruits, flowers and so on, it loses its previous knowledge and retains the new one. It means the newly acquired information replaces the old one and the process continues. The soul does not get lost. It is the knowledge; rather the information that it first received that gets substituted by the information acquired later. Thus, the chain continues forever; acquisition and loss and once again acquisition of knowledge by soul keeps continuing; hence there is no question of the soul getting lost.
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