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Soul Science: Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
known as three-gems (Ratna-Traya) by the Jains. Acārya Kundakunda has recognized the importance of these three-gems in the top line of this stanza. In the second line of this stanza, he wants to say that the description of the path of liberation in terms of the three-gems is consistent with the previous stanzas in which the knowing of the soul from the real point of view has been highlighted. To do so, he has stated that from the real point of view, these three-gems are nothing but the soul. We would learn more about the soul and the three-gems in the next two stanzas.
जहणाम को विपुरिसो रायाणं जाणिऊण सद्दहदि ।
तो तं अणुचरदि पुणो अत्थत्थीओ पयत्तेण ॥ 17 ॥
एवं हि जीवराया णादव्वो तह य सद्दहेदव्वो । अणुचरिदव्वो य पुणो सो चेव दु मोक्खकामेण ॥18॥
Jaha ṇāma ko vi puriso rāyāņam jāņiūņa saddahadi. To tam aṇucaradi puno atthathio payattena. ||17|| Evam hi jīvarāyā ṇādavvo taha ya saddahedavvo. Anucaridavvo ya puno so ceva du mokkhakāmena. ||18|| यथा नाम कोsपि पुरुषो राजानं ज्ञात्वा श्रद्दधाति । ततस्तमनुचरति पुनरर्थार्थिकः प्रयत्नेन ॥17॥
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एवं हि जीवराजो ज्ञातव्यस्तथैव श्रद्धातव्यः । अनुचरितव्यश्च पुनः स चैव तु मोक्षकामेन ॥18॥
Just as a person desirous of money serves a king by all efforts after knowing and believing in the king, in the same way, one who is desirous of attaining the liberation should make all efforts to know, believe in, and immerse in the soul-king. [17,18]
Annotation
It is well known that a person desirous of wealth serves the king after correctly knowing and believing in the king. In this process, all three aspects - knowing, believing, and serving - are related with the same king.
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