By: Vijay K. Jain
Bārasa Aņuvekkhā – ‘The Twelve Contemplations’ – of Ācārya Kundakunda (circa 1st century BC) contains 91 verses (gāthā). ‘Aņuvekkhā’, ‘aņupekkhā’, ‘anuprekşā’, and ‘bhāvanā’ are synonyms; these terms are used in Prākrit, Apabhramśa, Sanskrit and Hindi languages, respectively. Contemplation means ‘meditating on the nature of the Reality’.
The uniqueness of Ācārya Kundakunda’s exposition is that he has described each contemplation both from the empirical (vyavahāra) as we...
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By: Vijay K. Jain
The science-of-thought (Nyāya) has always been an integral part of the four constituents (anuyoga) – prathamānuyoga, karuņānuyoga, caraņānuyoga, and dravyānuyoga – of the Jaina Scripture. Through Parīkşāmukha Sūtra, Ācārya Māņikyanandi (circa 7th-8th century A.D.) churned the nectar of the science-of-thought (Nyāya) from the ocean of the words of the master-composers like Ācārya Samantabhadra and Bhaţţa Akalańka Deva.
The valid-knowledge (pramāņa) ascertains the true na... "The valid-knowledge (pramāņa) is the definitive
(vyavasāyātmaka) knowledge of the self (sva) and of the
things not ascertained earlier (apūrvārtha)."
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By: Vijay K. Jain
जिनशासन प्रणेता आचार्य समन्तभद्र (लगभग दूसरी शती) ने "युक्त्यनुशासन", जिसका अपरनाम "वीरजिनस्तोत्र" है, में अखिल तत्त्व की समीचीन एवं युक्तियुक्त समीक्षा के द्वारा श्री वीर जिनेन्द्र के निर्मल गुणों की स्तुति की है। युक्तिपूर्वक ही वीर शासन का मण्डन किया गया है और अन्य मतों का खण्डन किया गया है। प्रत्यक्ष (दृष्ट) और आगम (इष्ट) से अविरोधरूप अर्थ का जो अर्थ से प्ररूपण है उसे युक्त्यनुशासन कहते हैं। यहाँ अर्थ का रूप स्थिति (ध्रौव्य), उदय (उत्पाद) और व्यय (नाश) रूप तत्त्व-व्य...
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By: Vijay K. Jain
Ācārya Samantabhadra’s Stutividyā (In Sanskrit and Hindi)
(Jinaśataka)
Main Author: Ācārya Samantabhadra
Editor: Vijay K. Jain
Divine Blessings: Ācārya Viśuddhasāgara Muni
Publisher: Dehradun : Vikalp Printers, October 2020
Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
Jaina Philosophy – Early works to 1800
Description: L + 222 p. ; 24 cm x 17 cm
ISBN: 9788193272671
Format: Book; Hard-bound
Language Note: Sanskrit and Hindi
Keywords: sarvajña, divyadhva...
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By: Vijay K. Jain
Pańcāstikāya means ‘five-substances-with-bodily-existence’ and these are: the soul (jīva), the physical-matter (pudgala), the medium-of-motion (dharma), the medium-of-rest (adharma), and the space (ākāśa). These five substances collectively constitute the universe-space (loka). Outside this universe-space (loka) is the infinite non-universe-space (aloka), comprising just the pure space (ākāśa). The substance-of-time (kāla dravya) which renders assistance to all substance...
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By: Vijay K. Jain
English Translation: Vijay K. Jain; Editor: Vijay K. Jain
Divine Blessings: Ācārya 108 Vidyānanda Muni
Main Author: Ācārya Guņabhadra
Other Author: Vijay K. Jain
Foreword: Dr. Chakravarthi Nainar Devakumar
Publisher: Dehradun : Vikalp Printers, September 2019
Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
Jaina Philosophy – Early works to 1800
Faith, Knowledge, Conduct, Austerity, Liberation
Description: xlvi + 240 p. ; 24 cm x 17 cm
ISBN: 9788193272640
F... It is well-known that demerit (pāpa) begets suffering and merit (dharma, punya) begets happiness. Therefore, the
potential (bhavya) soul seeking happiness must refrain
from demerit and follow incessantly the conduct that
leads to merit (dharma).
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By: Vijay K. Jain; Vijay K. Jain, Editor
The book deals with the Jaina Doctrines – Early works to 1800. It covers important tents like Faith, Knowledge, Conduct, and Liberation.
lxiv + 342 p. ; 24 cm x 17 cm ISBN: 9788193272633
Format: Book; Hard-bound
Language Note: In Prakrit; translation in Hindi and English; explanatory notes and prefatory matter in English.
Keywords: three-jewels (ratnatraya), right faith (samyagdarśana), right knowledge (samyagjñāna), right conduct (samyakcāritra), repentance (pratik... “The ‘niyama’ – right faith (samyagdarśana), right
knowledge (samyagjñāna), and right conduct
(samyakcāritra) – is the way to attain liberation and the
fruit is the supreme liberation (paramanirvāõa). These
three – the Three Jewels (ratnatraya) – have been
described individually in this treatise.”
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By: Vijay K Jain
This profound treatise leads the reader to the path to liberation. The path consists in right faith, right knowledge and right conduct, together. The term ‘knowledge’ is to be taken with each kind mentioned in the
sūtra – sensory knowledge, scriptural knowledge, clairvoyant
knowledge, telepathic knowledge and perfect knowledge
(omniscience). That which reflects on the objects-of-knowledge
through the senses and the mind, or that through which the objects-of-knowledge are reflected upon, or just reflection, is sensory knowledge.
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By: Vijay K. Jain; Vijay K. Jain
The book emphasizes that the body and the soul are utterly different; we tend to pay attention to the body at the expense of the soul. The one who entertains delusion that the body and the like are
but the soul is the extroverted-soul (bahirātmā), the one who
entertains no delusion about mental states – imperfections like
attachment and aversion, and the soul-nature – is the
introverted-soul (antarātmā), and the one who is utterly pure
and rid of all karmic dirt is the pure-soul (paramātmā). Page 15
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By: Vijay K Jain; Vijay K Jain
The book is a masterpiece work on Jainism, the most profound religion in South Asia. In its three sections, it discusses the ideas of knowledge, objects-of-knowledge and the conduct required to attain perfect knowledge, i.e., omniscience. The man who, having grasped the Words of the Omniscient
Lord, destroys delusion (moha), attachment (rāga), and
aversion (dvesa), gets rid of all miseries, in a short time. - page 103
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