Jaina Gazette 1928

Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

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THE JAINA GAZETTE
man is non-eternal, but the succession or series of his births in the past is eternal. The succession or series of Mohan's parentage in the past is eternal, but as Mohan has got no progeny, the succession comes to an end. The seed comes from the tree and the tree comes from the seed and thus this succession in the past is eternal, but if a seed is burnt in the fire, it does not grow into a tree and the succession comes to an end. Thus we see that to think that whatsoever is from eternity, cannot come to an end, is not correct; a succession of things or events although eternal, can certainly come to
an end.
Then Mr. Mani Lal Vadi Lal says: now this state or condition of the Soul, which has never begun, and is as old as eternity itself, is to be brought to an end somehow by a miracle, and the miracle is performed by viewing from different standpoints. How is an eternal state or condition to be annulled?" But it is a mistake to call this state a state or condition of the Soul, it is rather a combined state of Soul and matter both; it is not natural state or condition of the Soul, it might be called (Vibhavik) an unnatural or artificial state-caused by a foreign element of the Soul, which must necessarily come to an end when that foreign element goes off. When the associationalthough eternal with respect to its successive series of that foreign element with the Soul, disappears, the unnatural condition caused by that association must be annulled.
Mr. Mani Lal Vadi Lal asks why I speak of matter in bondage with Soul" instead of Soul in bondage with matter. It is because it is matter which is attracted towards, and flows into Soul, and because it is matter-Karma which is every moment changing--at every Samaya (moment) some matterKarma is falling off, and some other matter-Karma is entering into bondage-while the Soul is not changing its identity, it remains the very same Soul. Then he says: "If this intermingling is an eternal state or condition of their existence, I submit that it cannot be annulled without annulling the existence of Soul and matter." But this intermingling, although eternal, is not the part and parcel of their natural existence, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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