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Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
Annotation
Here Stanza 235 presents the seventh attribute which in Samskrta is known as Vātsalya. The literal meaning of Vātsalya is “to have affection or to serve with affection'. Stanza 236 describes the eighth attribute named as Prabhāvanā in Samskrta. The literal meaning of this word is 'to glorify or propagate the goodness'.
Many persons do not like their job but they do their job with the hope that they would be happy after becoming rich or after getting promotion by doing the job which is not of their liking. Such persons may also have this notion that the religious persons are also doing their activities without any liking but with the hope that in the next life they would get the reward in terms of worldly pleasures. Stanza 235 clarifies that this thinking is not right. It says that an enlightened being (SamyagDrşti) has affection for his spiritual path.
The last stanza of this chapter, stanza 236, says that an enlightened being is mounted on the chariot of the knowledge, and his life itself propagates the preaching of the omniscient Jinendra Deva. His life sets an example before many due to his inner qualities of fearlessness (absence of negativity), non-attachment with the desires, affection for his path, clarity of vision, realization of the soul as Self, steadfastness, etc.
In stanza 235, we come across words: ‘affection for the sacred trio in the path of liberation'. Question arises about the meaning of “sacred trio'. Ācārya Jayasena in Tātparyavrtti as well as Acārya Amộtacandra in Ātmakhyāti answers this question by saying that SamyagDarśana, Samyagjñāna, and SamyagCāritra are the sacred trio of the path of liberation. Stanza 235 highlights that an enlightened being (SamyagDrști) has affection for these three jewels of the path of liberation.
From the relative point of view three kinds of saints – Ācārya, Upādhyāya, Sādhū- are also considered as the sacred trio.
