________________
Means of Self-Realization the aspirant, which produces ātma-jñāna. The scriptures of the Jina are full of preachings for developing vairagya and upasama rather than discussions of siddhantabodha. The causes of passions and attachment and delusion are worldly and temporal activities and associations (arambha and parigraha) and to reduce, avoid, and stop them is the sure path for developing vairāgya and subsiding one's passions.93 In short, 1 ordinary intelligence and its capacity to understand or judge the nature or existence of metaphysical entities is very inadequate and incapable of forming any judgement; because those concepts are matters of experience of the enlightened and not to be understood and judged by ordinary intelligence, even of the so called learned paṇḍitas.
7
E
Śrīmad, therefore says that philosophical concepts are things which are experienced by the enlightened or those who have realized the self. They have expressed the philosophical concepts in words of their own choice and in their own way. This is to say that certain things are matters of experince only and can be understood only after enlightenment. Such enlightenment depends on the destruction of the karma-bandha, especially what is called jñānāvaraṇiya karma in Jainism.
Śrīmad therefore points out, as stated above, that
209
