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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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There is light without the object which is revealed, God without that which is governed; the sound being heard by the sound itself and flavour is being tasted by flavour itself; the bliss (ānanda) enjoys bliss (ānanda ) itself. It is a result of perfection and rest of rest. Happiness meets with happiness, fire finds fire and the void drowns into the great void. The substance is not lost in the particular objects which are created out of it. The difference between water and waves disappears and there is simply an indescribable identity.... Everywhere there is the experience of the Saccidānanda; the Eternal is felt everywhere and all duality comes to an end. Therein, as if the sky embraces the sky and ocean of milk entertains another ocean of milk, nectar mixes with nectar, fifteen and a half should be added to fifteen and a half and still they should make fifteen and a half.' It is like the union of the Ganges with the ocean and the ripples are non-different from the ocean, lustre is one with the sun, so God is identical with all; know Him in such a way. This is the real bhakti.?
Jžānes'vara recognises three kinds of souls which are-() Arta ( ) -- afflicted in samsára, (ii) Jijñāsu (fog) - curious to know, (iii) Arthärthi (stufet)who are desirous of material gain. God becomes both the devotee, his craving, and the objects which he respectively seeks. God is present in all His devotees and cravings. The souls are governed by ajñāna or nescience,
1 Jñānes'vara means by this illustration that when pure gold is mingled with pure gold the resultant is pure gold only.
2 Jnānes'vari, XV • 538–570. 3 Ibid. XVIII. 1112.
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