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Lord Munisuvratanātha
From the point of view of modes, the three characteristics (origination etc.) are mutually different from one another and are also different from the substance. From the point of view of substance, these three are not perceived separately from the substance. If a thing were permanent alone, there can be no destruction and origination, and impermanence would be negatived. If the soul were permanent (unchangeable) utterly, then transmigration of the soul as a man, a hellbeing and so on and liberation, the end of transmigration, would both be impossible. If it were transient alone, there can be no continuance and hence no permanence.
Adapted from: Jain, S.A., “Reality: English Translation of Shri Pujyapāda's Sarvārthasiddhi”, (1960), Vira Sasana Sangha, Calcutta-37, p. 155-157.
दुरितमलकलङ्कमष्टकं निरुपमयोगबलेन निर्दहन् । अभवदभवसौख्यवान्भवान् भवतु ममापि भवोपशान्तये ॥
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सामान्यार्थ - आपने उपमा रहित परम शुक्लध्यान के बल से आठ प्रकार के कर्म महापाप-रूप मल-कलङ्क को भस्म कर दिया था और आप संसारातीत, अतीन्द्रिय, अनन्त मोक्ष-सुख से युक्त हो गए थे। मेरे लिए भी आप संसार की उपशान्ति के लिए निमित्तभूत होवें।
You had burnt all blemishes owing to the eight kinds of karmas by the power of incomparable pure meditation and thus became
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