Pictorial Philosophical Balpothi

Author(s): Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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Bhagwan tirthankar has said the following
SIX NATURES REGARDING_natures
A SOUL
(1) Body is not a soul. A soul is an individual
element separate from the body. It is imprisoned in the body, as a ghost remains in someone's body. A hand gets raised only if a being raises it. In picture 1, one hand of a
man is shown raised while the other paralysed can be seen lying. (2) A soul is not here for yesterday, today or tomorrow. It is here forever. It
is eternal. It has arrived here after getting freed from the imprisonment from the bodies of tree, water, insects, birds, animal, etc. Where will it go from here? It
will go wherever it would be taken by its karma, as shown in picture 2. (3) The reason of the imprisonment of a soul in the body is that it had done such karma. A soul is an operator of good or bad karma. It accumulates karmas by
committing sins like violence, lie, theft, sensual pleasures, accumulation of money,
getting involved in sinful activities etc. A soul continues to wander in this world till it keeps on accumulating karma. (picture 3) (4) A soul is also an enjoyer of karma. It has to endure the fruits of the karma. It gets joy or sorrow as a result of its own karma. Joy can be earned through merits and sorrow can be got through sins. To enjoy the merits, a soul has to go to human land or to heaven. While to endure the sins, one may have to go to hell or tiryanch state (animal life) as shown in picture 4.
One can get rid of the bondage of karma, as a prisoner gets permanent freedom from the prison some day. Annihilation of total karma leads definitely to moksha after which no karma can get stuck and one does not have either to wander in the world, or to suffer the pains like birth, death etc. in any of the four states i.e. heavenly god, hell, human, tiryanch
(insect and animal life) as shown in picture 5. (6) Moksha means freedom from the world forever and is full of infinite vision and knowledge, infinite power and infinite
pleasure. To attain such moksha, all the karmas should be annihilated. What should be done for that? The factors oposite to those responsible for accumulating karmas annihilate the karmas. Factors like worship of Jin, penance, vows, regulation of life as per orders of Jin, charity, good conduct, listening to scriptures, non-violence, truth, morality, samayik, pratikraman, conducting monklife, renunciation of worldly objects, expiation of sins etc. annihilate the karma. Following six are called the natures of samyaktva. (1) The soul exists. (2) It is eternal. (3) It is the operator of karma. (4) It is the enjoyer of fruits of karma. (5) It surely attains moksha (6) There are ways to attain moksha.
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