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Loka-tattya-nirnaya: A Critical Study
115 so unhappy? All these arguments refute the idea of the creation of the world by God. Others theories are also refuted in brief.
Then, he takes up the discussion about the Ātma-tattva and Karma. Just as different theories are prevalent about God and the world, similarly there are different theories about the nature of the Self. After discussing them, the author has propounded that the Self is eternal, that the cycle of transmigration goes on ceaselessly, and the soul becomes happy or unhappy due to his own Karma. On exhausting all the Karma, the soul finally attains to liberation. With this statement Haribhadrasūri closes the work.
The main topics of discussion, such as the soul, the world, God, and Karma are treated fully, and various philosophical systems are presented as prima facie views, and them they are refuted, and the Jaina view is justified. Though many of the philosophical theories presented as prima facie views are today known only by their mere names, they are important from the historical point of view for the students of the history of philosophical ideas. Another specialty of this work is that in it Haribhadrasūri has given us many beautiful verses.
