Manava Dharma

Author(s): Bhurmal Shastri, Nihalchandra Jain
Publisher: Aacharya Gyansagar Vagartha Vimarsha Kendra

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MANAV DHARMA / 11 Explanation ::
He alone, who is free from hunger, thirst, senility, disease, birth, death, fear, pride, attachment, aversion, infatuation, worry.conceit, hatred, uneasiness, sweat, sleep and surprise is called God.
The Jain Tirthankaras' are free from these eighteen kinds of blemishes described in this verse (Gatha) Description :
Hunger, thirst, senility, disease, birth, death, feer. pride, attachment love and affection, aversion, infatuation, passion-devoid of reasoning. worry, conceit, hatred, uneasiness, sweat, sleep and surprise are such faults and defects that they are impediments, responsible for being hinderance, for those noble souls, who are on the path of the truth. Therefore these should not be present even in the smallest form in an APTA-the Lord, who always utters Truth and nothing but Truth.
A querry · You say that those who utter the truth, are free from flaws and faults like hunger, but this does not appeal to our knowledge and we can not support this. To the extent. we see the people, we find more or less that all these faults are present in every man. There can be none who is free from these faults of hunger.
Answer - Brothern ! When you say and you are seeing, that the fault of hunger is more of less in every one then there is every possibility that this hunger may not be found in some one. A cloth may be with more dirt, other may be with less dirt but the third cloth can be such where there is no dirt.
Querry - In cloth the dirt comes from outside but in a man, this defect of hunger is since birth, and as such how can the two be equated ?
Answer - Leave aside the cloth-take an example of gold. Gold, excavated from the mine, contains more or less of impurities, but the gold, which has been purified by the Gold smith, has no impurity in that piece of gold. Of course, due to some mistake in its purification process, that particular piece of gold may have some impurity otherwise it assumes the Character of being 100% pure. Like wise, after inaking proper efforts, a man can also become pure and faultless.
नवसादर टंङ्काग्नि-वशात् स्वर्ण विशुद्धयति । तथा सत्सङ्ग सौहार्द तपोभिरय मात्मवान् ॥
Explanation :
Just as with the help of chemicals, known as Nausadhar (Ammoniumchloride) and Suhaga (Borax) when gold is heated in fire in perfect manner, it emerges in its purest form, free from even