Book Title: Tattvagyanni Gufama Aatmani Anubhuti
Author(s): Suresh Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Mahasangh

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________________ "Jin Pravachan durgmyata thake matiman, Avalumban Shri Sadguru sugasm ane sukhan.” Enlightened Sadguru, has all the abilities to teach disciple, most difficult part of Sashtra, being most simple way to get enlightened. Jainism is manifestation of unknown (atma). It is swarupgyan being knowledge of your own identity Epistemology being knowledge, judgement and perception is pratyaksha. Inference is anuman, verbal testimony is by shabda praman being the base. One can get knowledge direct or through mediator. Jainism believes in metaphysical logical relation called Anekantvad. Out of several principles of Jainism, one of them is unique, in comparision with other religions of world which is theory of syadvad or relativity. Theory of syadvad or relativity. Saptabhanginaya is : 1) Syad asti. 2) Syad nasti. 3) Syad asti nasti. 4) Syad avyaktam. 5) Syad asti cha avyaktam 6) Syad nasti cha avyaktam 7) Syad asti nasti cha avyaktam. By using this unique principle one can prove that the existence of soul can be relatively in multiple thought process. The preaching of Mahavirswami is mainly divided in two parts, the first being The Principles of Jainism and second being how to put these principles in to practice to reach the goal of enlightenment. One must notice that Anekantwad (Metaphysical logical relation) is a unique principle of Jainism. Therefore the Acharya (Head priest) from the different ideology could not make any changes in basic thought process, even after 2500 years. During these years the disciples of different ideologies made true efforts to understand the Sashtra from the Guru. Philosophy and Realisation

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