Sambodhi 2000 Vol 23

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 80

Vol.XXIII, 2000
SHRIMAD RAJACHANDRA'S....
= even one reaches to the position of god, still the craving for more never leaves. Craving, is really difficult to overcome. Thus, Srimad explains nature of the Dharma by explaining its main principles.
(3) Easy way to follow the doctrines of Dharma - Śrimad Rājachandra does not leave his readers - rather spiritual aspirants in lurch. Gradually he teaches them how to follow Dharma and how to implement it in daily actions. What a person should strive for and finally achieve the supreme bliss. First, he asks the aspirant to reflect on the thought that, "by doing what one can be happy and by doing what one is not. What he himself is and from where he has come -
शुं करवाथी पोते सुखी, शुं करवाथी पोते दुःखी; पोते शुं ? क्याथी छे आप,
एनो मांगो शीघ्र जवाप ||27 Then he tells to give up all the doubts, since the knowledge does not enter where doubt is. Knowledge is possible through devotion to the Lord and the Lord can be attained only through proper Guru. He says -
ज्यां शंका त्यां गण संताप, ज्ञान तहा शंका नहि स्थाप; प्रभु भक्ति त्यां उत्तम ज्ञान,
प्रभु मेळववा गुरु भगवान ||28 Then he teaches that; one should understand all the doctrines as one and learn Syādvāda as well i.e. -
जे गायो ते सघळे एक, सकल दर्शने एज विवेक; समजाव्यानी शैली करी,
स्याद्वाद समजण पण खरी ॥29 Then one should learn about nine fundamental principles of Jainism - viz. Jīva, Ajiva, Papa, Punya, Asrava, Bandha, Samvara, Nirjara, Moksa.