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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Such engagement of Upayoga reduces attachment, etc. passions in the present and is the cause of reducing the attachment, etc. in future also; hence one should engage one's Upayoga here.
One knows the kinds and classifications of Jivas & Karmas etc. in various ways; in such knowledge there is no purpose of indulgence in attachment, etc., therefore, attachment, etc. are not increased, rather everywhere the purpose of evolving passionlessness is proved. Hence, such study is the cause of uprooting the attachment, etc. passions.
Question: Though some statements are of this purpose only, but what is achieved through the description of Yojanas (unit of distance measurement), etc. of islands, oceans, etc.?
Answer: On knowing them, agreeable-disagreeable feeling is not aroused; therefore, the aforesaid purpose is served.
Question: If this be so, then even knowing of things like stones, etc. which serves no purpose, does not give rise to agreeabledisagreeable feeling; therefore, such knowledge also proves to be useful?
Answer: An ordinary passionate person does not make effort of knowing any thing without the purpose of attachment, etc.; if its knowledge takes place on its own then due to the intention of internal attachment, he wants to disetangle his upayoga from there. Here he knows the islands, oceans, etc. effortfully, engages upayoga there, so such act is possible only on reduction of attachment, etc. passions. And in knowing stones, etc., if any worldly purpose is perceived, then attachment, etc. passions arise but in knowing the islands, etc., no worldly purpose is involved; therefore, it is not the cause of attachment, etc. passions.
If by listening to the structure of heavens, etc., attachment (passion) is aroused, then it will be about the next birth only. Here, by knowing the virtuous conduct(Punya) to be its cause, by giving up vicious conduct(Papa), he would follow virtuous conduct. This much benefit only will be there. Further, on knowing islands, etc., the exact structure of the universe is known, then by perceiving the descriptions of other faiths to be false, he would become true believer and on
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