Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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determining, body making and family determining. The first four obscure the nature of the soul. The rest four are non-obscuring. Absence of the four obscuring karman endow the soul with the first four special attributes out of the eight stated already. He is the embodied omniscient. In the emancipated soul (disembodied omniscient) all the eight karman are absent and he shines with all the eight attributes.
With this short digression we shall now revert to the subject proper.
The special stationary wave motion adapts itself to the multi-dimensional modifications such as expansion, contraction and variation in shape the two substances soul and matter undergo from time to time. In Jainism soul's process of expansion, contraction and shape variations are generally compared with that of the light waves of a luminary. This serves as a clue that this special stationary wave motion spreads out from the central point to all the extremities of the substance in the manner of expanding light waves of a luminary.
The omniscient soul embodied or disembodied is free from the four obscuring karman, the consequent passions and quivering.1 In such a condition of the omniscient soul, the special stationary wave motion is free to impose its rhythmic wave patterns evenly in his entire space points right up to all his extremities. This results in the omniscient soul's surface, assuming a mirror like perfect medium for image reflection. This is normal special stationary wave motion of soul. It has the full backing of the omniscient soul's infinite energy. It has three fold functions. It maintains the soul's surface as a perfect reflecting medium as described above. It generates the normal super energy wave motion as mentioned earlier. It aids and energizes soul's tuning? faculty.
Omniscient soul's disturbance carrying normal super energy waves spread in all directions to the very edge of the universe,
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