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On the Loka-tattva-nirnaya of Haribhadrasūri
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rejected (115). Actually the great sages state that all Padārthas, both mūrta or a-mūrta, are endowed with their own traits (116) Rūpi and A-rūpi dravyas are known as sva-laksaņa (117). Actually, therefore, the five Bhūtas cannot possibly spring from Abhūta-cetana (119). This helps us to reject the other views of the Pūrva-paksa, like īśvara being the creator, etc.
Actually Haribhadrasūri wants to emphasize that nobody has created this Universe. No great soul will ever create this dirty world (125). If īśvara created this Universe and the Jivas, why do we find happiness and sorrow, poverty and riches in the world (127)? Why does He destroy the world after creating it? The author refuses to accept that Iśvara, who creates the world with all its diversities and contradictions, is not affected by it (132). The actual position is that the birth of beings in various species (yoni) takes place today as ever in the past; so say the Siddhas (134). The views on creation of the Universe as enunciated earlier are mutually contradictory (136–137). The real position is that the liberated souls (muktas) do not create the Universe, for those who are devoid of passion are not bound by Karman. Only the Jivas, full of passions, are bound by Karman (137). Nobody is the creator or master of the Siddhas, who have attained to a state of Eternity, and who torment none (138). Actually, only one Creator does not exist in the world; he is different in each embodied being (139), Ātmans that are liberated and eternal are as such for all time (140). The variegated world with its Jñana, Vrddhi and Hāni has no Creator. Existence is there by its own very nature (142). Ātman is also its own proof and eternal (143). The earths, oceans, mountains, heaven (svarga), mid-regions of the sky (antariksa) with Siddhālaya, are eternal and svābhāvika; this is a-laukika (144). The Jiva roams in this transitory world helplessly through its own deeds. The author ends the whole discussion with the description of the Saṁsāra-cakra in the following words:
