________________
Ajñāna
483
Further, we have stated that Darsadāvarana is like a doorkeeper and Jõānāvarana like a bondage on the eye. The first is concerned with presentation, while the second with understanding. Presentation is objeetive; it introduces a new object to consciousness. Moreover, the varieties in presentation depend upon thc object. On this basis, we can associate the corresponding obscurance also with the object. The understanding, though it moves round the presented object, does not depend upon it. The variation in understanding does not necessarily require variation in the object. The same man, with similar presentation, is taken into different relations by different persons. On this plea, we can say jñāna as subjective, and consequently the corresponding avaraņa also.
The question of kevaladrśanāyarana also is the same as that of kevalajñānāvaraņa. The only difference is that it is related with presentation.
Yašovijaya attributes the above two types of avaraṇas with double functions i.e. the obscurance of the kevalajñāna and kevaladarśapa as well as p.oduction of incomplete cognitions.
www.jainelibrary.org
For Private & Personal Use Only
Jain Education International
