Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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SARVODAYA TIRTHA
or categories From the standpoint of categories, the soul has three types, viz , external soul, internal soul, great soul.
The soul which does not have right knowledge and faith in the nine fundamentals, who has no feeling about the self, and which identifies itself with matter like the physical body and the means of influx like attachment, etc., and conduct it self to be their master is the external soul.
The soul which by dint of the science of differentiation considers itself to be separate from physical body, etc, and attachment, etc., knows it, feels it, that knowing and seeing soul with right view is the internal soul
When this internal soul gives up the life of a householder, accepts the life of a monk to make right effort, becomes wholly detached by concentrating on the self as per its own nature and effort and attains the supreme knowledge, it becomes the great soul 29
In the external, internal and great souls, in these states of these, there is an ever changing, yet ever existing thing apart from the body which is consciousness. The ever-changing thing consists of influx, bondage, virtue, vice, check, exhaustion and liberation The soul is the ever existent
As a rule, it is right faith to look on this soul as something different from the rest This soul wrapped by its own merits and categories, collected and fixed in a unity by pure naya, is a complete lump of knowledge. This soul is full of right faith so that, parting company with the nine fundamentals it the only one worth attaining 30
Although because of the contact with nine fundamentals, the soul appears diversely, but it is at no time gives up its
29 for further information refer to Samadhisataka. Pujyapada; Astapahuda
(Moksapahuda) Kundakunda 30 ekatve ni yatasya śuddhanayato vyāpturyadasyāt manh
purnajnānaghanas ya darśanamıha drayyantarebhyah Pythak samyagdarśanametadeva niyamādātmā ca tatvāuayam tanmuktvā navatattvasantatimimamātmāyamekostu nah
-Samayasara, Kalaša, 6