Majority of us desires salvation and are constantly working towards it by following ways shown by Jainism under guidance of Gurudeo and Aagams. In nine Tatvas of book "Mokshamarg" following 16
conditions are specified to attain salvation. Let us do the home work based on it. With it at least we can know thise basic requirements.
It can help to check if we miss any conditions for getting liberated.
1-Only humans are capable for salvation.
2-He shall be Tras-kaay (moving) soul.
3-Shall be from five organs category-Panchedriya.
4-Shall be Sanni (with mind ).
5-Only Bhavi souls-(eligible for salvation).Giving up wrong faith.
6-Only Shuklapakshik. Means he touched "Samkit" at any point.
7-Parimit Sansari ( limited domestic lives ),He entered this zone.
We are doing many lives due to sins. To enter in mostly cut zone.
8-Only Kshayik-samkiti.(permanent correct-knowledge, faith and conduct). He will never return to wrong faith in any circumstances.
9-Only Avedi ( free from three Ved or gender sextual desire )
10-No-Kashayi ( free from all four Kashay- Akashayi).
11-Yathakhyat Chatityi.- ( Mohniya Karma--silent or nominal).Soul takes Diksha and becomes monk/Sadhu with 6th Gunastana. Y.C. Gunastana is obtained after 10th Gunastana.
12-Only Kevaldyani.- Means having complete correct knowledge.
13-Only Kevaldarshini. Who can see all things of all time correctly.
14-Only Anaaaharak-( No food in-taker).
15-Only Ayogi (Shaileshi--No action of mind, speech and body).
16-Only Aleshi (free from Leshya or emotion)Thus we can see that we are moving human with mind and five organs. We can assume with our interest in Jainism that we are Bhavi. Thus we have met first five conditions out of sixteen one.With maximum human efforts we can aim at next 11 conditions to have salvation. With salvation our soul can find permanent place "Siddhasheela " for ever resting in internal peace and free from life and death cycle .Good Luck to all salvation seekers.
JAI JINEDRA--------------!!!------ JAI MAHAVEER--------!!!.
Our personality is being shaped by Mother, Father and Teachers to a large extent. With passage of time it gets polished with education,
experience and surroundings. Our spiritual personality is being shaped by religious holy books ,Gurudeo and noble souls of all time.
Such noble souls have attained salvation but they have left mark of their teachings forever for human race. Mahaveer Bhagwan is one of those noble souls who has shown us light and path of salvation. Bhagwan got salvation on full black day ( Kartik Amawasya) of Dipawali in 527 BCE (approx. 2541 years ago) at Pawapuri (Bihar state-India) He is the last 24th Thirthankar of this period.
Before going to school mother teaches us numbers, alphabets and other small things like how to stand up, how to walk ,how to keep safe distance from fire and other harmful things etc. Her efforts has ever lasting effect on us. Nobody has ever repaid this unique debt of her. The things she taught may be small but remains unmatched.
Similarly looking back to our spiritual development, I can not think we could ever repay the debt of Lord Mahaveer for his teachings. We all owe a huge debt to Him for his main teaching briefs here under which may result in less life cycles for his followers. Let us study it from impact angle for all devotees it can craete more respect for him.
1-His Karma theory made us to take care of all of our actions by mind, body and speech. He clarified that each action is material.
2-He established equality of all living creatures to have fair dealing from every one-human, plant animal. It ensured smooth leaving,
3-He taught to control own organs and minimize needs.
4-He established that God is not shaping human destiny-it is the work of our own Karma builted. So we learnt importance of Karma.
5-He has shown what is 18 sins ( Paap) and 09 good deeds (Punya).
6-He has shown the way to reduce cycles of life and death by correct-knowledge, faith and conduct. He explained "Nirjara".
7-He prescribed 12 Vrata and Restrictions ( Pachkhans ) for simple living. We learnt to control organs and needs while living.
8-He clarified that with out nullifying all Karmas salvation is not possible for any one. It put restrictions on vagabond life style.
9-His Jinwani through 32 Aagams make it easy how to march on path of salvation. This is lamp of ever lasting knowledge for us.
10-He prescribed how a monk shall live life after quitting domestic life. It brought disciplined life to achieve salvation in practice.
11-He placed high emphasis on Truth and non-violence.
12-He explained nature of Universe, living and non-living units through Kevaldyan. It opened doors of knowledge treasure for us.
What he has given to world is not possible to summarize but the light he spread while leaving for salvation will guide human race
for 21000 uninterrupted years from his Moksha or salvation.I salute him hundred times for His unique gift. I also express my inability to repay his debt at least in current life. Definitely I aim to reduce his debt by spreading his message of Truth, Non-violence and Live and Let Live among interested masses. See if you can join.
JAI JINEDRA-------!!!------------- JAI MAHAVEER--------!!!.
Dipawali is the most popular festival of India. The popularity is mainly for next three reasons. First it is celebrated as a tribute to coming back to Ayodhya of Lord Ramachandraji after defeating Ravana. Secondly it is auspicious for Jains as Mahaveerswami got his salvation on Kartik Amawasya. Devotees also celebrate it with Puja of Goddess Laxmi to have her blessings for wealth creation.Full lights, sweets, crackers, garlands of flowers, lanterns and so on, many things are being used to express joy associated with events. On the other hand Jain also engage themselves in fast, Swadhaya of Utradhyansutra and Pucchisunam and visit to temples and Sthanaks. Utradhyansutra covers 36 chapters told by Bhagwan before Moksha .Devotees chat Puccchisunam as composed by Sudharmaswami in praise of Bhagwan Mahaveerswami. 108 Puchhisunam they try to complete. we celebrate it with every possible method but in the process we ignore the damages we make to environment and other living creatures. The crackers has the most negative effect from the above list. Most of us are aware of it. It causes so many damages.
Air pollution ,noise, disturbance to birds resting on trees at night, catching of fire and so on. Indirectly it amounts to violence of Agnikaay (fire) and Vayukaay (air) creatures. Certainly we shall not celebrate this great day in such way, we shall not follow tradition but
to go for of logical adoption of tradition as suited for modern society.
The mud lights lighting also causes killing of numerous tiny insects through oil and fire. We can certainly reduce the numbers to a bare minimum one to match our salvation aim. In festival fever we as the
follower of Jainism forgets the basic teaching of the noble soul who attained most desirable-Nirvana/salvation.
If we wish to celebrate his outstanding achievement, we must vow to keep abstinence from fire and crackers. Bhagwan Mahaveer got the real light of soul. On the other hand with artificial light, we increase the distance of real light from our soul. Let us turn to real light
In West people enjoy wealth with out asking it from any Goddess. So friends let us make introspection of our methods of Dipawali celebrations and shall prefer for true inner light.
JAI JINERDA--------!!!------------ JAI MAHAVEER-----------!!!.
In 101 numbered blog ( immediate last one) we learned the basic important principle of Jainism that soul is immortal and even with killing of a unit the number of total souls in the Universe remains unchanged. Suppose with weapons like knife or revolver one cut a cow, goat or shoot a man. Then what will be the results of such act-?
In day to day life we see butchers involved in such acts. They may
be a direct culprit but the customers for whom they do it also are
indirect culprits one. Let us study the impact of it, so someone may
think to keep away from such sin in future and advise others also.
As a result there will be a physical disappearance of that particular soul which left for heavenly abode. Now what are consequences for the shooter or killer. Bhagwatisutra in 09/34 Shatak titled in Hindi "Purush,Nopurush and Rishi Ghatak "Mahaveerswami has told Gurugutamswami that such killer is a killer of dead together with souls living under his shelter. As the shielded one they lost shelter.
In case the killed one happened to be a monk or noble soul, the killer kills the monk and infinite souls who would have followed his path of non-violence Thus Bhagwan has clarified one popular misconception that killing kills only a direct victim alone. Such a
crime is being also committed for so many other orphan followers.
In such cases no doubt the killer builds Nikachit Karma( Means not eligible to be nullified but to be faced with same results ) against the departed souls. He has to repay the debt in same or another way of severe form. Even if one is follower of Jainism or non-violence in current birth ,he need not to hate other violent people. The basic reason being in many of our previous lives we may have committed same sins in absence of knowledge of connected consequences.
Only thing we can do is to pray that such people can gain the right knowledge and right faith to value life of living ones and express our regret such mistakes committed by us knowingly or otherwise
unknowingly in our all previous births. Thus be sure our smallest action does not cause a slight injury to any living soul or his dependent. As the we all are under the powerful vigilance of Karma doctrine. So it is better to be careful for making any wrong choice.
JAI JINEDRA-----------!!!-------------- JAI MAHAVEER-------!!!.
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1-Only humans are capable for salvation.
9-Only Avedi ( free from three Ved or gender sextual desire )
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