Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration : (With Authentic Explanatory Notes): (With Authentic Explanatory Notes)

By Jain, Vijay, K.

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Title:	Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration : (With Authentic Explanatory Notes): (With Authentic Explanatory Notes)
Author:	Jain, Vijay, K.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Religion, Jainism
Collections:	Religion, Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	2019
Publisher:	Vikalp Printers

Member Page:	Vijay K. Jain
Citation APA MLA Chicago K. Jai, B. V. (2019). Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration : (With Authentic Explanatory Notes). Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
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 (pratikramaņa), renunciation (pratyākhyāna), expiation (prāyaścitta), confession (ālocanā), self-adoration (niyama), essential (āvaśyaka), omniscience (kevalajñāna), liberation (mokşa)

Summary
‘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.

Excerpt
“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.”

Table of Contents
Chapter-1 THE SOUL Chapter-2 THE NON-SOUL Chapter-3 THE PURE THOUGHT-ACTIVITY Chapter-4 THE EMPIRICAL RIGHT CONDUCT Chapter-5 THE REAL REPENTANCE Chapter-6 THE REAL RENUNCIATION Chapter-7 THE SUPREME CONFESSION (INTROSPECTION) Chapter-8 THE REAL EXPIATION Chapter-9 THE SUPREME MEDITATION Chapter-10 THE SUPREME DEVOTION Chapter-11 THE SUPREME ESSENTIAL Chapter-12 THE PURE-COGNITION