Moksha Marg Prakashak

Author(s): Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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CHAPTER-I
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but in Jain religion such a highly passioned person does not take birth.
The first basic preceptor Tirthankara - Kewali (the omni-scient) is free from all passions due to complete annihilation of Moha (delusion and attachment, etc.). Next originators of Shastras are the Ganadharas and Acharyas who because of feeble rise of Moha karma (attachment) have forsaken all sorts of external and internal possessions; hence are extremely dispassionate. Owing to the presence of feeble passion in them they are found possessed with somewhat proclivity of Shubhopayoga (auspicious thought activity) and no other purpose is found. And if the right-faithed Shravakas (householders) also compose the Shastras, they too are not highly passioned; if they had intense passions how could they cultivate interest in Jina-Dharma (Jainism) which is the destroyer of all sorts of passions by all means ? Or, if someone owing to the rise of perverse faith, nourishes the passions by other (temporal) deeds, he may do so but by going against Jina's preachings (Maxims), if he nourishes one's passions, he loses Jain-identity.
Thus, in Jainism such a highly passioned person is not found, who shall by composing false words, spoil others as well as his own lot in this birth and the births hereafter.
Question : If someone “so-called" Jaina under the influence of intense passion mixes false words in Jain Shartras and then his tradition continues, what to do in such case?
Answer: As someone mixes artificial pearls in the ornament of real pearls but the shining does not match, so by examining it the examiner does not get cheated also, except the ignorant one who gets cheated in the name of real pearls, and his tradition also does not continue; soon someone starts disapproving the artificial pearls. Similarly, in the Jain-Shastras which are a collection (treatise) of true words, someone may intermix false words, but the purpose shown in the words of Jain-Shastras is of uprooting the passions and of reducing worldy affairs. And the false words which are intermixed by that sinful person, serve the purpose of nourishing the passions and accomplishing the worldly affairs. Thus the purpose does not match; therefore, after examination, the wise person is not cheated.