Book Title: Jaina Gazette 1928
Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

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________________ FURTHER ELUCIDATIONS 55 throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men" (Ibid. 38). The Saved Ones, we learn from the Book of Enoch (page 34) "shall all live and never again sin." They shall spend in “ eternal gladness and peace all the days of their life" (Ibid.) And they shall not again transgress. Nor shall they sin all the days of their life. Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath" (ibid. 34.) "And from henceforth there will be nothing corruptible : for the Son of Man has appeared ; and has seated himself on the throne of his glory. And all evil shall pass away before his face. And the world of that Son of Man shall go forth, and be strong before the Lord of spirits" he third Parable of Enoch, see the work quoted, p. 92). We learn from "The Ascension of Isaiah " (see p. 32) that " (Those who believed in the ascension into heaven, withdrew and settled on the mountain. They were all clothed with garments of hair, and they were all prophets. And they had nothing with them, but were naked." This is but only the description of the Digambara (Jaina) saint who has only his skin (the garment of hair) for his covering, who possesses nothing and who is absolutely naked ! Only when a worldflight of such a type is attained does the flesh leave the soul unmolested and depart from it for ever! Then only can the soul attain to full continuity of consciousness and to knowledge that remains unbenumed and unclouded by the stupor of somnolence and sleep. Those who have already attained to the supreme Status have, accordingly, been described in "The Book of Enoch" as those who sleep not. "And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not......" (p. 59.) A very large number of men have attained to the Supreme Status already. In mystic language, (Vide as for instance, the description of a similar spectacle in the 4th and the 5th chapters of the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Holy Bible). They are described as standing or seated round the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com

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