Parmatma Prakash

Author(s): Yogindra Acharya
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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PARMATMA-PRAKASH.
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215. And one who is Ajñani, wishes, under the pretext of Dharma (virtue), to take in the whole world ; this is the difference between the two.
NOTE.- One who is devoid of the Nischaya Ratan Traya (the three essential Jewels),--that
is, Right Faith, Right Knowledge, and Right Conduct,-is said to be an Ajnani. The belief that one's Nija (own), Shuddha (pure) Atman is Vitraga (passiontess and desireless), Saha Jnanda (the enjoyer of inborn bliss) and Jnana-Maee (the puresubject of knowledge) is what is called the Nischaya Samyak Darshana (the right faith). To know the Atman (self) as separate and distinct from all the not-self in detail is the Nischaya Samyak Jnana. And having separated one's heart from all Mithyatva (falsehood), and Râgadik (love, hatred and all other passions and desires), to make it calm and steady and to realize one's own true nature, in other words, living in the true Self is the Nischaya Samyak Charitra. The Muni (saint) who does not possess this Ratan Traya (three jewels) is Ajnani. Such & saint fixes his heart upon Punya-Kriya (the performance of virtuous deeds). alone which is the cause of worldly comfort and pleasures, but not of Moksba.
216. No doubt, a foolish saint takes pleasure in his disciples and books, but a Jñani (saint) knows this kind of conduct to be a cause of bondage, and becomes ashamed of it.
Note.-To have attachment with one's disciples and religious books is the cause of the bondage
of good Karmas, it might eventually lead to Moksha, but it cannot be the direct cause of it. Those saints who make themselves contented with, and are always involved in, this sort of virtuous attachment, do not get Moksha; hence the Jnani becomes ashamed of, and give up, even this meritorious form of attachment.
217. Pen, inkstand, paper, etc., and disciples-all these, if they create Moha (attachment) in the minds of saints, cause them to fall down from the path of progress.
NOTE.-The Jnani saints do not entertain attachment even for the articles which help them in the
performance of Dharma. They feel compassion for the worldly people and also accept them as disciples to enable them to cross the ocean of Samsara, but they do not attach their hearts to them. In the same way, they keep other articles such as books, pen, etc., in order to help them in acquiring knowledge, but do not entertain any attachment towards them.
218. He who pulls out his hair to become a Digambara (a saint who gives up even the last vestige of cloth), but does not give up Parigraha, that is, Râga and Dvesha, such a saint only deceives himself.
219. The saint who having renounced the last strip of cloth and having given up all Parigraha again takes a thing which appears agreeable to him, eats his own vomit.