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Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
Annotation
Before discussing these stanzas, I (the author of the annotations) want to describe one experience that happened nearly two decades back during a train journey. In the upper class coach my co-passenger was a senior person and was looking sad. For the sake of further description let me call this person Anantji (not his real name). In that compartment there were not many passengers. Anantji initiated conversation with me and soon he expressed his desire to express his personal problem. On my green signal he took about one and half hours to describe his problem. I listened to him carefully with full attention.
He first took about 15 minutes to introduce himself. He mentioned as follows: "I am Anant Agrawal (Name changed here, and live in ... There, I am the president of the Lions club. I have factories that manufacture products such as ... I am the founder president of a college for girls in my city ..."
Before arriving at the main problem he expressed the gravity of his problem in words such as the following: “I was having a very pleasant and comfortable life in my city with my family that includes my son, daughter-in-law, and a grandson. Six months back, a misfortune spoiled our life. Since then I could not sleep well even for a single night. All my family members do their best to make me happy but it has not worked. My family members and relatives also arranged many meetings with various renowned saints and scholars but nothing has worked so far..."
Anantji was describing his feelings in detail in very emotional and sad voice. I continued my patience as I thought that he is a smart, intelligent, and rational person, therefore, I should not make any haste, I should allow him to speak in the way he wants. After a long time he arrived at his main problem. In brief, the problem was as given below:
“My grandson died due to illness. He was treated by expert
