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Letter 17
Special Attributes & Modifications of
Jeev Substance Letter 17
April 10, 1995. Dear Reena & Mona,
Blessings & Best Wishes. After seeing your enthusiasm and eagerness to know more about the nature of one's own self, I am writting this letter immediately after the earlier one. Strong eagerness to know the nature of Atma or one's own self shows one's eligibility. Such Jeevas or persons can understand and grasp the preachings of Jinavani fotrauit.
In my last letter we had seen that one can know or understand any particular substance, through its specific or special attributes and their modifications. That substance can be known through its explicit characteristics.
Each Jeev substance has (i) Chetana i.e. sentience. It is of two types - Darshan i.e. sentience of perception and Dnyan i.e. sentience of knowledge (ii) Shraddha i.e. belief (iii) Charitra i.e. conduct (iv) Sukh i.e. Bliss (v) Veerya i.e. Potency (vi) Kriyavati Shakti i.e. region changing capacity etc. as its special attributes.
The activity of the Darshan attribute is to 'see' or perceive in general any object. To know any thing is the activity of the Dnyan attribute. There you know the object in details or specifically.
When we say that the activity of Jeev is to see and know, the activity of seeing is the activity of the Darshan attribute and that of knowing is the activity Dnyan attribute.
When the attention of Jeev is in seeing or perceiving an object then it is called Darshanopayog (optatuut) and when the attention is in knowing, then it is called Dnyanopayog ( Franuurt). Before knowing any object it is perceived; that is the activity of Darshan attribute therefore it is called Darshanopayog ( sptalauto).
There are four modifications of Darshan attribute. They are Chakshu Darshan चक्षुदर्शन, Achakshu Darshan अचक्षुदर्शन, Avadhi Darshan अवधिदर्शन and Keval Darshan thaciayta.
(1) Chakshu Darshan :- The general perception which occurs before Mati Dnyan through Chakshu indriya or the sensony organ of sight is called Chakshu Darshan. This is also known as ocular perception.
(2) Achakshu Darshan :- The perception which occurs before Mati Dnyan occuring through other four sensory organs and mind, is called Achakshu Darshan. This is non ocular perception.
