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Chapter - 1
Samayasāra the disciple regarding the devotion towards an omniscient by clarifying the position. Omniscients (kevali) are free from every kind of imperfections and are full of good virtues. Worship and devotion toward them is certainly desirable for spiritual advancement. But an omniscient is not a disembodied soul. He is a human being with a human body, who has realized the pure character of the soul by eradicating all passions. The question is who precisely is the omniscient? Is the body or the soul or the integrated organism? Now so long as the body and the soul are not distinguished as done only by the transcendental view, an aspirant is inclined to direct his devotion towards the body, which is the object of direct experience and not towards the soul. While there are certain good qualities of the body of an omniscient which are worthy of eulogization, this is not the same as eulogizing the pure and perfect state of the soul achieved by him. Moreover there can be no devotion apart from an affective state and when there is affection, there also is attachment to an external object. This does not mean that worldview of worship towards an omniscient is valueless but the aspirant must realize that the physical body is not the same as the soul just as a king is not the same as his capital city.
Conqueror and Destroyer of Delusion जो इंदिये जिणित्ता णाणसहावाधियं मुणदि आद। तं खलु जिदिदियं ते भणंति जे णिच्छिदा साहू॥३१॥ jo imdiye jiņittā ņāṇasahāvādhiyam munadi ādam. tam khalu jidimdiyam te bhanamti je nicchidā sāhū.. 31
जो मोहं तु जिणित्ता णाणसहावाधियं मुणदि आदं।
FIGHTË HIS isfalura fäfa il Belt jo moham tu jiņittā ņānasahāvādhiyam munadi ādam. tam jidamoham sāhum paramatthaviyānayā vimti.. 32
जिदमोहस्स दु जइया खीणो मोहो हवेज्ज साहुस्स। तइया हु खीणमोहो भण्णदि सो णिच्छयविदूहि ॥ ३३॥ jidamohassa du jaiyā khiņo moho havejja sāhussa.
taiyā hu khīnamnoho bhannadi so nicchayavidūhim.. 33 Conqueror of the Senses
(Jo imdiye jinittā) The ascetic, having vanquished his sen
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