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  1. "छोटे बाबा" तमिल मे "சோட்டே பாபா"

    संत सिरोमणि आचार्य श्री 108 विद्यासागर महाराज जी की जीवन गाथा तमिल  भाषा में लिखा है । संयम कीर्ती स्तम्भ उध्दाटन समारोह मे 18/11/2018 रविवार  को  तमिलनाडु श्री विसाकाच्चार्य तपोवन कुन्द कुन्द नगर  पोन्नूरमलै, वन्दवासी,  में  संत सिरोमणि  के  शिष्य  बाल ब्रह्मचारी  श्री  शान्त कुमार जी  उपस्थित मे  शाास्त्री  श्रीमान  सिंहमचन्द्र  द्वाराा विमोचन हुआ । ये  पुस्तक  श्री विसाकाच्चार्य तपोवन  प्रकाशित किया ।

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  2. Ācārya (Muni) Nemicandra’s Dravyasamgraha – With Authentic Explanatory Notes (Thoroughly Revised Second Edition) आचार्य (मुनि) नेमिचन्द्र विरचित द्रव्यसंग्रह - प्रामाणिक व्याख्या सहित (आद्योपांत संशोधित द्वितीय संस्करण)

    Editor and Translator: Vijay K. Jain
    Language Note: Prakrit, Hindi and English
    Publisher: Vijay Kumar Jain, 2022
    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
    Description: xlii + 310 p. (total 352 p.); 24 x 17 x 2.5 cm
    ISBN: 978-93-5737-427-9
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
     
    The canonical text ‘Dravyasamgraha’ is believed to have been composed either by the Most Worshipful Ācārya Nemicandra ‘Siddhānta Cakravartī’ (circa 10th century CE) – the celebrated composer of Texts like Gommatasāra, Labdhisāra, and Trilokasāra – or by his later namesake Muni Nemicandra ‘Siddāntideva’ (circa the end of 11th century CE).
    Ācārya (Muni) Nemicandra’s Dravyasamgraha consists of just 58 verses. In 116 lines of 58 verses, the author has described the six substances (dravya), five with bodily-existence (pañcāstikāya), seven realities (tattva), nine objects (padārtha), and the path to liberation (mokşa), from both the empirical (vyavahāra) as well as the transcendental (niścaya) points-of-view (naya). The treatise ends with a brief description of the five Supreme-beings (pañca-parameşthī) and of meditation (dhyāna).
    The ‘Explanatory Note’ against each verse comprises excerpts from the most authentic Sacred Jaina Texts.

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  3. Ācārya Guņabhadra’s Ātmānuśāsana – Precept on the Soul आचार्य गुणभद्र विरचित "आत्मानुशासन" विजय कुमार जैन

    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
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
    Language Note: In Sanskrit; translation in Hindi and English; explanatory notes and prefatory matter in English.
     
    About the Book: Ātmānuśāsana (commonly spelled as Atmanushasan) by Ācārya Guņabhadra presents profound concepts of the Jaina Doctrine in a form that is easily understood. Remarkable for its poetry and meaning, it expounds that right faith (samyagdarśana) is the cause of merit, and wrong faith of demerit. To have belief in the true nature of substances is right faith. Dharma is the man’s most excellent possession. The conduct that leads to merit is dharma and it results in happiness after destroying misery. Whether happy or miserable, dharma should be the only pursuit of man. True happiness is not the momentary sprinkling of the pleasures of the senses. Long-life, wealth and sound body are obtained from the previously earned merit (puņya). Under the spell of sinful karmas, the man experiences misery. Excellent men with discrimination work hard, incessantly and cheerfully, for the sake of their future lives. The happiness attained through austerity (tapa) can never be attained by craving for wealth. No dust of disgrace ever touches the feet of the man fortified by austerity. The ascetic goes on to perform austerity while protecting his body, for a very long time. Through the power of austerity he vanquishes his natural enemies, like the passions of anger, etc. In the after-life, he automatically and speedily attains liberation as the culmination of his human effort.

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  4. Ācārya Kumudacandra’s Kalyāņamandira Stotra – Adoration of Lord Pārśvanātha आचार्य कुमुदचन्द्र विरचित कल्याणमन्दिर स्तोत्र (श्री पार्श्वनाथ स्तोत्र)

    Editor and Translator: Vijay K. Jain
    Language Note: Sanskrit, Hindi and English
    Publisher: Vijay Kumar Jain, January 2024
    Description: 22 + 74 p. (total 96 p.); 23 x 16 x .8 cm
    ISBN: 978-93-6076-239-1
    Format: Book; Paperback, on Art paper
    Price: Rs. 250.00
     
    About the Book:
    Kalyāņamandira Stotra (Pārśvanātha Stotra) is the magnum opus composition of Ācārya Kumudacandra (circa 12th century VS). Kalyāņamandira Stotra eulogizes the supreme attributes of Lord Pārśvanātha, the twenty-third Tīrthaṅkara. This is perhaps the most well-known adoration of Lord Pārśvanātha that is not only recited but memorized, with great devotion and reverence, by many among the Jaina community, both Digambara and Śvetāmbara.
    The worthy soul is believed to accumulate enormous propitiousness by reading Kalyāņamandira Stotra with devotion. Many claim to have benefitted miraculously from the recitation of and reflection on this sacred composition.
    This slim volume is a useful reference text for international readers. It will be of interest not only to the Hindi-loving scholars but also to those looking for an authentic English rendering of Kalyāņamandira Stotra.
    Besides other useful information, the book’s Preface contains a brief life story of Lord Pārśvanātha, as expounded in the Scripture. The interesting and eye-opening sequence of the enmity carried forward by various incarnations of Kamaṭha (finally, Śambara deva) against his then-younger brother Marubhūti (finally, Lord Pārśvanātha), is also provided in a tabular form.

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  5. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Bārasa Aņuvekkhā – The Twelve Contemplations आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित बारस अणुवेक्खा (द्वादश अनुप्रेक्षा, बारह भावना)

    Main Author: Ācārya Kundakunda
    Editor and Translator: Vijay K. Jain
    Divine Blessings: Ācārya Viśuddhasāgara Muni
    Publisher: Dehradun : Vikalp Printers, December 2021
    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
    Jaina Philosophy, Jaina Ethics
    Description: xxx + 234 p. (264 p.) ; 24 cm x 17 cm
    ISBN: 9789355661340
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
    Language Note: Prakrit, Hindi and English
     
    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 well as the transcendental (niścaya) points-of-view (naya).
    These contemplations help a man practise moral virtues, like forbearance (kşamā), and lead to highly effective stoppage (samvara) of karmas. He who does contemplation observes properly the moral virtues and also endures the afflictions.
     

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  6. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration (With Authentic Explanatory Notes) आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित "नियमसार" - विजय कुमार जैन

    English Translation: Vijay K. Jain; Editor: Vijay K. Jain
     
    Divine Blessings: Ācārya 108 Vidyānanda Muni;
     
    Main Author: Ācārya Kundakunda
     
    Other Author: Vijay K. Jain
    http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2015230049/ 
     
    Foreword: Dr. Chakravarthi Nainar Devakumar
     
    Publisher: Dehradun : Vikalp Printers, May 2019
     
    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
     
    Jaina Philosophy – Early works to 1800
     
    Faith, Knowledge, Conduct, Liberation
     
    Description: 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.
    ‘Niyamasāra’ by Ācārya Kundakunda (circa 1st century BC) is among the finest spiritual texts that we are able to lay our hands on in the present era. The treatise expounds, with authority, the nature of the soul (ātmā) from the real, transcendental point-of-view (niścayanaya). It expounds the essence of the objects of knowledge, and, by the word ‘niyama’, the path to liberation. ‘Niyamasāra’ is the Word of the Omniscient Lord. It has the power to bestow ineffable happiness of liberation that is utterly rid of attachment, without obstruction, eternal, and sense-independent. This happiness is attained by meditating on the perfect-soul-substance which is pristine, and endowed with four qualities of infinite-knowledge, imperishable, indestructible, and indivisible. Worthy men aspiring for supreme happiness who comprehend this Scripture without contradiction of the empirical (vyavahāra) and the transcendental (niścaya) points-of-view are able to adopt conduct that leads their souls to the desired goal. By concentrating on the pure (śuddha) and inseparable (abheda) ‘Three Jewels’ (ratnatraya), eternal happiness appertaining to the perfect-soul-substance is attained.‘Niyamasāra’ discourses right exertion for the soul and its fruit, the supreme liberation.





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  7. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Pańcāstikāya-samgraha – With Authentic Explanatory Notes in English (The Jaina Metaphysics) आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित "पंचास्तिकाय-संग्रह" - विजय कुमार जैन

    English Translation: Vijay K. Jain; Editor: Vijay K. Jain
    Divine Blessings: Ācārya Viśuddhasāgara Muni
    Main Author: Ācārya Kundakunda
    Other Author: Vijay K. Jain
    Publisher: Dehradun : Vikalp Printers, February 2020
    Description: lxx + 358 p. ; 24 cm x 17 cm
    ISBN: 9788193272657
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
    Language Note: Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi and English; explanatory notes and prefatory matter in English.
     
    Pańcāstikāya-samgraha or Pańcāstikāya-sāra (known briefly as Pańcāstikāya and spelled commonly as Panchastikay) is one of the four most important and popular works of Ācārya Kundakunda (circa first century B.C.), the other three being Samayasāra, Pravacanasāra and Niyamasāra. The original text is in Prakrit language and contains a total of 173 verses (gāthā). 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 substances in their continuity of being through gradual changes is not an ‘astikāya’ since it occupies a single space-point and, therefore, does not possess the characteristic of body (kāya).
    Pańcāstikāya-samgraha expounds the Jaina metaphysics – the philosophy of being and knowing – including the nature of the pure soul-substance (jīvāstikāya) which is integral to the seven realities (tattva), the nine objects (padārtha), and the six substances (dravya). While the substance (dravya) never leaves its essential character of existence (sattā), it undergoes origination (utpāda), destruction (vyaya) and permanence (dhrauvya). There is inseparable association between the qualities (guņa) and the substance (dravya). The discussion relies on the ‘doctrine of conditional predication’ (syādvāda) and the ‘seven-nuance system’ (saptabhańgī), as expounded by Lord Jina.

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  8. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Pravacanasāra – Essence of the Doctrine आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित "प्रवचनसार" - विजय कुमार जैन

    Ācārya Kundakunda’s (circa 1st century BCE) Pravacanasāra is among the most popular Jaina Scriptures that are studied with great reverence by the ascetics as well as the laymen. Consciousness manifests in form of cognition (upayoga) – pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga), auspicious-cognition (śubhopayoga) and inauspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga). Pure-cognition represents conduct without-attachment (vītarāga cāritra). Perfect knowledge or omniscience (kevalajñāna) is the fruit of pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga). The soul engaged in pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) enjoys supreme happiness engendered by the soul itself; this happiness is beyond the five senses – atīndriya – unparalleled, infinite, and imperishable. Omniscience (kevalajñāna) is real happiness; there is no difference between knowledge and happiness. Delusion (moha), the contrary and ignorant view of the soul about substances, is the cause of misery. The soul with attachment (rāga) toward the external objects makes bonds with karmas and the soul without attachment toward the external objects frees itself from the bonds of karmas. The stainless soul knows the reality of substances, renounces external and internal attachments (parigraha) and does not indulge in the objects-of-the-senses.

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  9. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Rayaṇasāra – The Quintessential Jewel आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित रयणसार

    Ācārya Kundakunda’s (circa 1st century BCE) Rayaṇasāra makes it clear that the right-faith (samyagdarśana) is the beginning as well as the culmination of the path to liberation – mokṣa-mārga. The householder (śrāvaka) must first acquire the right-faith – the Quintessential Jewel (Rayaṇasāra) – to be able to establish his Self on to the path to liberation. As he acquires the right-faith he begins to appreciate the reality of the world and the worldly-existence. He then exerts to acquire the true knowledge (jñāna) as expounded in the Doctrine (siddhānta), and adopts the laudable conduct (cāritra) by becoming a digambara-ascetic (nirgrantha muni). He ascends the spiritual-stages (guṇasthāna) and ultimately, through pure-meditation (śukla-dhyāna), attains the ineffable and eternal bliss appertaining to liberation (mokṣa).
    Ācārya Kundakunda, all through this Holy Scripture Rayaṇasāra, underscores the importance of the right-faith (samyagdarśana) for the householder (śrāvaka) as well as the ascetic (muni, śramaṇa). He asserts that in the (present) unfavourable fifth era the study – svādhyāya – of the Scripture, indeed, is meditation (dhyāna); it results in the subjugation of the five-senses (paṅcendriya) as well as of the passions (kaṣāya).

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  10. Ācārya Kundakunda’s Samayasāra – with Hindi and English Translation (Thoroughly Revised Second Edition) आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द विरचित समयसार (आद्योपांत संशोधित द्वितीय संस्करण)

    Main Author: Ācārya Kundakunda
    Divine Blessings: Ācārya Vidyānanda Muni (1st Edition);
    Ācārya Viśuddhasāgara Muni (2nd Edition)
    Editor and Translator: Vijay K. Jain
    Language Note: Prakrit, Hindi and English
    Publisher: Vijay Kumar Jain, 2022
    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
    Description: xlii + 238 p. (total 280 p.); 24 x 17 x 2.5 cm
    ISBN: 978-93-5680-382-4
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
     
     
    Ācārya Kundakunda’s (circa 1st century BCE) ‘Samayasāra’ is among the most profound and sacred expositions in the Jaina religious tradition; it is perhaps the finest spiritual texts that we are able to lay our hands on in the present era. The original text is in Prakrit language and contains a total of 415 verses (gāthā).
    ‘Samayasāra’ is the exposition of the Pure (śuddha) ‘Self’ or ‘Soul’. It is the exposition, from the transcendental point-of-view (niścaya naya), of the ‘Real Self’ or it is the ‘Essence of the Soul’.
    The assertions that the soul (jīva) gets bound to the karmic matter (dravya-karma) or that it does not get bound to the karmic matter are made from different points-of-view (naya). But that which transcends all points-of-view is the ultimate truth, the ‘samayasāra’, absolute and pure soul-substance.

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  11. Ācārya Mānatunga’s Bhaktāmara Stotra आचार्य मानतुंग विरचित भक्तामर स्तोत्र

    Bhaktāmara Stotra is the magnum opus composition of Ācārya Mānatunga (circa 7th century CE). Bhaktāmara Stotra eulogizes the supreme attributes of Lord Ādinātha, the first Tīrthaṅkara. This is perhaps the most well-known adoration of Lord Jina that is not only recited but memorized, with great devotion and reverence, by a large number of people among the Jaina community, Digambara and Śvetāmbara.
    The worthy soul is believed to accumulate enormous propitiousness by reading Bhaktāmara Stotra with devotion. Hundreds of thousands of instances, ancient and recent, must have come to light where people claimed to have benefitted miraculously by the recitation of and reflection on this sacred composition.
    This slim volume is a useful reference text for international readers. It will be of interest not only to Hindi-loving scholars but also to those looking for an authentic English rendering of Bhaktāmara Stotra. Besides the transliteration in English of the original Sanskrit verse, the meaning of each verse has been given both in Hindi and English languages. The Preface of the book contains, besides other useful information, a synopsis of the concept of empirical (vyavahāra) time (kāla), and a brief life-story of Lord Ādinātha, the first Tīrthaṅkara, as expounded in the Scripture.
     
     
    भक्तामर स्तोत्र आचार्य मानतुंग (लगभग 7वीं शताब्दी सीई) की महान कृति है। भक्तामर स्तोत्र प्रथम तीर्थंकर भगवान् आदिनाथ के सर्वोच्च गुणों की प्रशंसा करता है। जैन समुदाय, दिगंबर और श्वेतांबर, की एक बड़ी संख्या द्वारा मान्य यह भगवान जिन की सबसे प्रसिद्ध आराधनाओं में से एक है, जिसे न केवल सुना जाता है, बल्कि बड़ी भक्ति और श्रद्धा के साथ याद किया जाता है। ऐसा माना जाता है कि भव्य आत्मा द्वारा भक्ति के साथ भक्तामर स्तोत्र का पाठ करने से अपार पुण्य का संचय होता है। सैकड़ों हजारों उदाहरण, प्राचीन और हाल ही में, सामने आए होंगे जहां लोगों ने इस पवित्र रचना के पाठ और चिंतन से चमत्कारिक रूप से लाभान्वित होने का दावा किया।
    यह पुस्तक अंतरराष्ट्रीय पाठकों के लिए एक उपयोगी संदर्भ पाठ है। यह न केवल हिंदी-प्रेमी विद्वानों के लिए बल्कि भक्तामर स्तोत्र के प्रामाणिक अंग्रेजी अनुवाद की तलाश करने वालों के लिए भी रुचिकर होगी। मूल संस्कृत श्लोक के अंग्रेजी में लिप्यंतरण के अतिरिक्त प्रत्येक श्लोक का अर्थ हिन्दी और अंग्रेजी दोनों भाषाओं में दिया गया है। पुस्तक की प्रस्तावना में, अन्य उपयोगी जानकारी के अलावा, व्यवहार काल की अवधारणा का सारांश, और प्रथम तीर्थंकर भगवान आदिनाथ की संक्षिप्त जीवन-कथा, जैसा कि पवित्र शास्त्रों में व्याख्या की गई है, का समन्वय है।

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  12. Ācārya Māņikyanandi’s Parīkşāmukha Sūtra – Essence of the Jaina Nyāya आचार्य माणिक्यनन्दि विरचित परीक्षामुख सूत्र

    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
    Jaina Philosophy, Jaina Nyāya
    Description: lviii + 262 p. (320 p.) ; 24 cm x 17 cm
    ISBN: 9788193272695
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
    Language Note: Sanskrit, Hindi and English
     
    About the Book: 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 nature of objects while the fallacious-knowledge (pramāņābhāsa) does the opposite. Parīkşāmukha Sūtra characterizes, as per the earlier authoritative expositions and in brief, both these (pramāņa and pramāņābhāsa) for the benefit of the uninitiated learners.
    It is an essential canonical text that every knowledge-seeking householder and ascetic must try to master.

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  13. Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Bhakti Saṃgraha – Collection of Devotions आचार्य पूज्यपाद विरचित भक्ति संग्रह

    Editor and Translator: Vijay K. Jain
    Divine Blessings: Ācārya Viśuddhasāgara Muni
    Foreword: Dr. Chakravarthi Nainar Devakumar
    Publisher: Vijay Kumar Jain, June 2022
    Subjects: Jainism – Doctrines – Early works to 1800
    Jaina Devotions
    Description: xxxiv + 278 p. (total 312 p.) ; 24 x 17 x 2.5 cm
    ISBN: 978-93-5627-523-2
    Format: Book; Hard-bound
    Language Note: Sanskrit, Hindi and English
     
    Bhakti Saṃgraha or ‘Collection of Devotions’ composed by Ācārya Pūjyapāda (alias Ācārya Devanandī; circa 5th century CE) comprises a set of devotions (bhakti) in form of chaste and melodious Sanskrit hymns. Incidentally, the Most Worshipful Ācārya Kundakunda (circa 1st century BCE) had earlier composed his ‘Daśa Bhakti’ in Prākrit. The reading of devotions (bhakti) is essential to tread the difficult path to liberation. This great work by Ācārya Pūjyapāda is an essential reading for the ascetic (sādhu, muni) as well as the householder (śrāvaka). It not only helps the soul acquire merit (puņya) but, more importantly, saves it from engaging in evil tendencies and pursuits. The devotions pertain, among others, to Lord Jina, the Supreme Beings, the Scripture, the Perfect Conduct, the sacred adobes of attainment of liberation of the Arhanta, and the Nandīśvara dvīpa. This collection includes ‘Śāntyaştaka’ (hymn in praise of the sixteenth Tīrthańkara, Lord Śāntinātha).

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  14. Ācārya Umāsvāmī’s Tattvārthasūtra – With Explanation in English from Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Sarvārthasiddhi आचार्य उमास्वामी विरचित "तत्त्वार्थसूत्र" - विजय कुमार जैन

    Ācārya Umāsvāmī’s (circa 1st century CE) Tattvārthasūtra (spelled commonly as Tattvarthsutra or Tattvarthasutra), also known as Mokşaśāstra, is the most widely read Jaina Scripture. It expounds the Jaina Doctrine, the nature of the Reality, in form of aphorisms (sūtra), in Sanskrit. Brief and to-the-point, Tattvārthasūtra delineates beautifully the essentials of all objects-of-knowledge (jñeya). Sarvārthasiddhi by Ācārya Pūjyapāda (circa 5th century CE) is the first and foremost extant commentary on Tattvārthasūtra. Sarvārthasiddhi is an exposition of the reality – the true nature of substances, soul and non-soul – the knowledge of which equips one to tread the path to liberation, as expounded in Tattvārthasūtra. There is beginningless intermingling of the soul (jīva) and the non-soul (ajīva) karmic matter. Our activities (yoga) are responsible for the influx (āsrava) of the karmic matter into the soul. Actuated by passions (kaşāya) the soul takes in particles of the karmic matter; this is bondage (bandha). Obstructing fresh inflow of the karmic matter into the soul – samvara – and its subsequent separation or falling off from the soul – nirjarā – are two important steps in attaining the infallible, utterly pristine, sense-independent and infinitely blissful state of the soul, called liberation (mokşa).

     

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  18. Profound Sacred Jaina Texts composed by the Most Holy Ancient Preceptors (Pūrvācārya)

    This is the description of the most profound and priceless Scripture composed by our Most Holy Ancient Preceptors (Pūrvācārya), published now with English and/or Hindi translation and explanatory notes.
    Must read and essential possession for every devotee of the Jinavani.

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  19. Sacred Jaina Texts (जिनवाणी)

    Taste the sweet nectar of knowledge that equips you with the power of discrimination between what is worth accepting and discarding. This would enable you to lead a purposeful and blissful life, here and hereafter.

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  20. Silent Soil - Mook Mati English Translation

    By Acharya Vidyasagar Ji

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  21. The Mute Clay : Mookmaati in English

    The Mute Clay : Mookmaati in English

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