08-01-2022, 10:30 AM
Gatha-14
Lord Jina has expounded that the ascetic (muni, śramana) who has right knowledge of the soul and other substances, is well versed in the Scripture, observes self-restraint (sanyama) and austerity (tapa), is free from attachment (rāga), and for whom happiness (sukha) and misery (duÍkha) are alike, represents pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga).
Explanatory Note:
That ascetic (muni, śramana) represents pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) who has right faith and knowledge about the nature of the Self and, shunning everything other than
the Self, establishes himself in the Self. He achieves this state through the power of self-restraint (sanyama) and austerity (tapa). Devoid of all attachment (rāga), he has no concern for anything other than the Self. He does not entertain dispositions of either like or dislike for the objects of the senses.
Gatha-15
The soul that has become pristine through pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga), and has washed away, by own effort, the dirt of the obscuring – knowledge-obscuring (jñānavaranīya) and faith obscuring (darśanāvaranīya) – along with the obstructive (antarāya) and the deluding (mohanīya) karmas, comprehends fully all objects-of-knowledge (jñeya).
Explanatory Note:
Only the soul established in pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) attains, on destruction of four inimical karmas, omniscience (kevalajñāna) that knows fully all objects of the three times (past, present, and future). The nature of the soul is knowledge, and knowledge is coextensive with the objects-of knowledge (jñeya); knowledge pervades the objects-of-knowledge.
Since the objects-of-knowledge are all objects of the three worlds and the three times, it follows that omniscience, the fruit of pure cognition (śuddhopayoga), knows all objects of the three worlds and the three times.
Lord Jina has expounded that the ascetic (muni, śramana) who has right knowledge of the soul and other substances, is well versed in the Scripture, observes self-restraint (sanyama) and austerity (tapa), is free from attachment (rāga), and for whom happiness (sukha) and misery (duÍkha) are alike, represents pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga).
Explanatory Note:
That ascetic (muni, śramana) represents pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) who has right faith and knowledge about the nature of the Self and, shunning everything other than
the Self, establishes himself in the Self. He achieves this state through the power of self-restraint (sanyama) and austerity (tapa). Devoid of all attachment (rāga), he has no concern for anything other than the Self. He does not entertain dispositions of either like or dislike for the objects of the senses.
Gatha-15
The soul that has become pristine through pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga), and has washed away, by own effort, the dirt of the obscuring – knowledge-obscuring (jñānavaranīya) and faith obscuring (darśanāvaranīya) – along with the obstructive (antarāya) and the deluding (mohanīya) karmas, comprehends fully all objects-of-knowledge (jñeya).
Explanatory Note:
Only the soul established in pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) attains, on destruction of four inimical karmas, omniscience (kevalajñāna) that knows fully all objects of the three times (past, present, and future). The nature of the soul is knowledge, and knowledge is coextensive with the objects-of knowledge (jñeya); knowledge pervades the objects-of-knowledge.
Since the objects-of-knowledge are all objects of the three worlds and the three times, it follows that omniscience, the fruit of pure cognition (śuddhopayoga), knows all objects of the three worlds and the three times.