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પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવ જ યોગી શ્રી પૃષ્ઠ ૧૧૨ % પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક ૬ માર્ચ ૨૦૧૭ દ્રિજી વિર જ પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવત
૬ પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવત જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિરોષક BR પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવત જ્ઞાનાયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક 8 પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવે : જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક BE પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષક BN પ્રબુદ્ધ
According to Karma theory of Jaina, gender is Tirthankara or Jina, Malli, the only female 8 the cause of Nama Karma and the true nature is the Tirthankara of our time. This legend offers an cause of Mohaniya Karma. Thus, gender indicates opportunity to look into the factors that lead to the original temperament (veda) and one's true rebirth as a woman. The soul that became female ? nature and desire. Nishitachurni mentions that a Malli was a king Mahabala in the previous birth & change in the gender (linga) brings changes in one's (three births prior to the last). He renounced the psyche i.e. passions and desires.
world together with seven friends, and they On the basis of gender and temperament, the became Jaina mendicants. It is customary for a tagama literature classifies man and woman. So to Jaina monk to observe fasts and other special
say, the body or the physical structure is her gender; austerities. But, Mahabala by nature was deceitful thus if a person possesses a body having hairless and gave excuses of ill health for not observing
face, breasts, vagina, uterus etc., which are all fasts etc. His conduct was otherwise harmless, $ Simbibed in feminine gender, that person is called and as a consequence of his great exertions in
Dravya Stree. Similarly, if one's body feels to unite leading a holy life he generated karmic forces as with the body of opposite sex i.e. with a man's body would yield him rebirth as would be Jina - i.e. one in the case of a woman it is called Bhava Stree. whose conception (garbha), birth (janma), The acharyas in the Agama commentary have renunciation (diksha), enlightenment (kevaljnana)
compared a woman's temperament or the sexual and death (nirvana) would be celebrated as hy inclination with 'Uppal Fire'. This is a kind of fire auspicious events by Gods and men. Therefore,
and its nature is to enkindle slowly but once started the cunning monk Mahabala was reborn as a it remains steady for longer time. Nonetheless, at a princess Malli (lit., Jasmine flower- great beauty) certain spiritual level (9th gunasthana) the craving a female and the other seven monks were reborn
for sex comes to an end. Therefore, the women on as members of warrior caste and ruled the t š their ascent on the spiritual ladder with their neighbouring kingdoms. They all sought Malli's
sustained efforts can climb further towards the goal hand in marriage and went to war over her. Malli 2 of freedom from rebirth.
was disgusted to be regarded as a sexual object Status of women down the era
and one that led to violence; she renounced the In the Yugalika period, boy and girl i.e. twins, who world in that very young age and attained were born together, lived together like brother and kevaljnana/omniscience the very same day of her a sister till maturity later became life partners. For them, renunciation and became Jina, thus attaining a inequality of man and woman did not arise. Jaina status equal to that of Mahavira. Nevertheless,
history says that Risabhadeva was the last person Digambara vehemently reject moksa of Malli as = of the Yugalika period and also the first person to blasphemy and voice that Svetambaras have
break this tradition when he married Sunanda to give fabricated this story to support their claim that her security whose twin brother had died in an women can get liberation. accident. Sumangala, his first wife had no objection From the above said facts it is glaring that all Jainas for his remarriage.
share belief that such vices and crookedness Of the earlier women we can cite:
(maya) are the fundamental cause of rebirth as a Marudevi (mother of Rishabhdeva), the first lady woman. However, Svetambara emphasise that this to get Keval Jnana
karmic rule is not an obstacle for women to attain Brahmi and Sundari (daughters of moksa. Also, the Digambaras admit that the Rishabhadeva) were the first ladies to learn samyaktva can also be attained by a person even in calligraphy and languages. (Brahmi script). female body and does not prevent her to attain the same Sundari led a life of spinsterhood and became goal of moksa as a male. nun, and Brahmi was appointed as the head of Rajimati: A would be wife of Lord Neminatha who & the nun's group which included 3 lac nuns and renounced without marrying her became an 54 thousand shravikas.
inspiration for Rajimati to become a nun. She also • Tirthankara Mallinatha: This is defined as an comprehended Rathnemi-a monk and brother-in
extraordinary event, indeed a miracle or law who proposed her for marriage. She ashcharya, and it applies to the nineteenth intelligently explained and convinced him about
પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક શા પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન જ્ઞાનયોગી શ્રીમદ્ રાજચંદ્રજી વિશેષાંક પ્રબુદ્ધ
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