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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
श्रुतसागर
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जनवरी-२०१६ the Vedic statements rightly. Since Indrabhuti Gautama was extremely intelligent, he understood and grasped the truth with much ease and interest. It is apt to quote Chanakya in this context.
“जले तैलं खले गुहयं पात्रै दानं मनागपि
प्राज्ञे शास्त्रं स्वयं याति विस्तारं वस्तु शक्तितः।।"
Just as a drop of oil spreads over the entire surface of water, a secret revealed to a wicked person spreads around in no time, a little of charity given to holy saints yields a lot of Punya. So also even a little knowledge of deep philosophical thought is understood in detail by sharp and intelligent students and aspirants.
What Indrabhuti understood and realized, is explained in detail in the following chapter.
CHAPTER 6 Indrabhuti had a doubt regarding the existence of the soul, but the doubt itself goes to proves the existence of the soul, because the doubtful existence of a thing proves that the thing is already existent elsewhere and hence the doubt arose regarding the object. You see a figure approaching in the dark of the night and you are unable to identify it either to be a human being or an animal, so also one is unable to recognise a shining object seen in the dark either to be silver or a pearl. One often mistakes in the dark a long rope to be a snake. In all the above examples the existence of a man, animal, silver, pearl, snake and rope is established. If the soul was non-existent Indrabhuti would never have had a doubt regarding the subject.
Just as doubt is a form of knowledge so also, memory, anxiety, logic, etc., are other forms of knowledge. Knowledge is a characteristic of the soul. Atman is the one who possesses this quality & if the possessor of infinite knowledge himself is denied, to whom will the quality of knowledge be attributed to, because the existence of quality is based on the thing existing, not otherwise. Hence if the quality exists, the possessor of that quality is bound to exist and that possessor of infinite quality, knowledge is termed as “Atman.
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