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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
COSMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAYXKHYASANAITA.
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But if emancipation is to be gained, who should be the recipients of it? In reply the Jayakhya states that they represent the Jivas (beings) who are born with desires, which have no beginning. When Jiva returns and merges in Brahman it is called emancipation or freedom from re-birth (Apunarbhavatā). Jiva is defined as Atman which is endowed with consciousness or mass of knowledge, but is liable to receive impurities like desires, antipathies, etc., due to ignorance arising out of the creation having the three Guņas : Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Jiva is one which clings to the earth which gradually evolves in the order of Mahat, Ahankāra and other creative Tattvas, and without realising the difference, is transformed according to the evolution of the elements and behaves like them.
Therefore, in order that the Jīva may obtain emancipa. tion, "vorship becomes necessary. No one can realise the Supreme Spirit without any concrete idea of the same, and it is hence necessary that the highest God should be worshipped in the form of Mantras and images. The Mantras are parts and parcels' of the highest Brahman, his images are parts of his person. The letters of the alphabet originate from him, and their combination inakes the Mantras. And because they
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रजितं गुणरागेण स आत्मा कथितो द्विज ॥
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अस्तीति परमं वस्तु निरालम्बमतीन्द्रियम् ॥ आत्मन्यानन्दसंस्थस्य व्यज्यते करणैर्विना । करणाः प्राकृताः सर्वे चित्तजाश्च विशेषतः ॥
F#7 #219: ... ... ... p. 40. एते भगवदंशाश्व शब्दा भास्वरविग्रहाः ।। कारणं सर्वमन्त्राणां भगवच्छक्तिबंहिताः ॥ 9FYRIRHAT APZICH TE TI p. 45.
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