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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.
Edited by Vijay K Jain