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Svayambhūstotra
स्थितिजनननिरोधलक्षणं चरमचरं च जगत्प्रतिक्षणम् । इति जिन सकलज्ञलाञ्छनं वचनमिदं वदतांवरस्य ते ॥
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सामान्यार्थ - हे जिनेन्द्र ! आप उपदेश - दाताओं में श्रेष्ठ हैं, आपका यह वचन कि चेतन व अचेतन रूप यह जगत् हर समय ध्रौव्य - उत्पाद - व्यय लक्षण से युक्त है इस बात का द्योतक है कि आप सर्वज्ञ हैं।
O Lord Jina! You are the supreme orator; your exposition that this world, comprising animate and inanimate substances, incessantly exhibits the characteristics of origination, disappearance (destruction), and permanence*, is illustrative of your omniscience.
*Origination is the attainment of different modes by souls or other substances by means of external and internal causes, without giving up their essential nature. For instance, the production of a pitcher from clay. Similarly, the loss of the former mode is disappearance. For instance, the loss of the lump shape of clay in the production of the pitcher. As there is no annihilation or origination of the inherent nature or quality, it is lasting. That is, it is permanent. The quality of being permanent is permanence. For instance, clay continues to exist in the lump, the pitcher, and its broken parts. Existence is accompanied by origination, disappearance and permanence. Permanence is indestructibility of the essential nature of the substance. Or, permanence is the existence of the past nature in the present.
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