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THE JAINA GAZETTE, man must put forth his own effort to get advancement, salvation or liberation. When everyman's salvation is depending on his own extertions it matters little for us whether he lives with us or away from us. The householder and the monk are the two limbs-of a community serving it in his own way. We do not read of any community that has lived exclusively without the help and guide of the so-called malingerers, the self-less, homeless monks. Much of Indian culture is due to her ascetics only,
BHAVYA AND ABHAVYA. We have published elsewhere · A query on Bhavya and Abhavya " by Mr. L. A. Phaltane. He thinks 'there is no third element which will fetter the qualities of the soul.' Why not? There are Karma prakritis which are said to be subtle particles of matter, pudgala, which is a species of the genus Ajiva. Jiva and Ajiva are not merely different substances. They are different classes of substances. Jiva includes all the souls of the universe, liberated and unliberated, souls with one or more senses, souls in the different stages of birth, souls with different varieties of bodies as well as souls which are capable of attaining liberation and souls which are incapable. In the same way in the class Ajiva are included matter, time, space, the medium of motion and the medium of rest. Srimad Umaswami, the famous disciple of Sri Kundakunda. Acharya says in his Tattvartha Sutra, about the Bhavyatva and Abhavyatva of souls. Jiva bhavyabhavyatvani cha. Chap. II. Sutra 7. The bhavya and the abhavya souls are from eternity like light and darkness. The natural tendency of upward motion is common both to bhavya and abhavya. An abhavya cannot go to Moksha but it goes to the celestial regions. Why should there be a class of Jivas called abhavyas, we are not able to answer. We have to believe in the teachings of the Tirthankara who saw the universe and the beyond in His Omniscience.
SYADVAD JAIN MAHAVIDYALAYA. The 20th anniversary of the Syadvada Jain Mahavidyalaya, Kashi was celebrated with great eclat on the 3rd and the 4th April. The celebrations began on the 3rd under the distinguished president
ship of Pandit Ganga Prasad Mehta, M. A. who delivered his Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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