Samayasara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
whole doctrine of the Conqueror (Jina), in the body of the scriptures.
Commentary.
Here the author emphasises the importance of the real point of view. It is through this alone that a right-believer looks at his soul as quite pure, shorn of all defects - and the soul, as it is, in its true nature and essence.
This knowledge, i. e., the self-realization of the soul, as it is, is the sum and substance of the teaching of Tirtham karas and is laid down in the Jaina scriptures. Every one, aspiring after liberation and studying Jainism for this purpose, should try to understand the real with the practical point of view. It is the former alone which can procure one the gift of self-analysis which is a key to open the store-house of omniscience and perfection (Bheda Vijnana).
आदा ख मज्झ गाणे आदा मे दंसणे चरिते य । आदा पच्चक्खाणे आदा मे संवरे जोगे ॥ १८॥ आत्मा स्फुटं मम ज्ञाने आत्मा मे दर्शने चरित्रे च । आत्मा प्रत्याख्याने आत्मा मे संवरे योगे ॥ १८ ॥
18. Verily the soul is in my (right) knowledge. (right) belief, and in my (right) conduct, the soul is. renunciation, in the (thought-activity which produces ) stoppage (of inflow of Karmic matter into the soul, and in my) selfconcentration, ( there is ) soul.
In my In my
Commentary.
In this Gatha, soul is considered as an All-pervasive Reality; for though knowledge, belief, conduct, renunciation, and the subjective stoppage of inflow (Bháva samsára) and concentration are known by different names from the practical point of view and in consideration of the differences in point of their subject-matter, all are, from the real standpoint, present in their real, supreme, pure form only in a soul absorbed in itself.
दंसणणाणचरिताणि सेविदव्वाणि साहुणा णिच्चं ।
ताणि पुर्ण जाण तिरिणवि अप्पाणं चेत्र णिच्छयदो ॥ १६ ॥
दर्शनज्ञानचारित्राणि सेवितव्यानि साधुना नित्यं । तानि पुनर्जानीहि त्रीण्यपि आत्मानं चैव निश्चयतः ॥ १६ ॥