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Chapter - 10 Dahamo Savvavisuddhaņāņādliyāro
Wholly Pure Knowledge
Introduction/Preamble
“Nothing surpasses the excellence of Samayasāra-self-contained, self-determining, self-sufficient pure and perfect super SELF”. These are the concluding words of the author and the gist of the 400 odd verses of the book Samayasära.
In the preceding chapters the ultimate as well as the conventional nature of the nine padārthas (categories of truth) was revealed by discussing each of them from transcendental and empirical aspects respectively. Now in this concluding chapter, the central theme is totally pure knowledge-the purest unalienable attribute of the emancipated pure soul. All other padārthas, described from time to time, in the previous chapters are, in a way, relegated to a secondary position while purest knowledge-the all-embracing direct apprehension of the entire Reality-is given the primary importance. In fact, the all-knowing self in which the substratum and the attributes are fully unified, is the object of Self-realization. The other padārthas-auspicious and inauspicious karma, their influx, bondage, rise and demolition-fade away in the background as the soul has always been aware of them, bit never an active participant.
Earlier, we had discussed the delusion-the fundamental factor-which is the ultimate condition of the worldly state of existence of the soul. Jain philosophy is originally propounded by the omni-scienst. It basically aims at revealing the ultimate potentialities of the soul as directly apprehended by the omniscients. It also shows the pathway or the process which culminates in selfrealization. The original twelve scriptures, called urigapravista, comprise the entire truth about the nature of the self and selfrealization that an omniscient can possibly express verbally. It is the duty of those highly gifted sages-śrutakevalis-who learn and fully comprehend the entire contents of these scriptures, to transfer
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