(I will delete the post if people get hurt).
(Jain says par dravya se durgati, swa dravya mein leen raho, Retire and go to forest, etc.) (Moksh pahud - 13 , samaysaar kalsh- 191)
Is man by nature really made for adhyatma ? Or is he a social animal ? He/she wants human company. Problems of Akelapan, loneliness are widespread . Even muni wants human company at least in present times. They stay in sangh and are surrounded by householders. Means in present time, such extreme adhaytma is meant for merely knowing and not practicing?
Jain shastra says atma ke alawa bahar shastra mein bhi agar buddhi jaati hai to veh vyabhicharni hai.(Padmanandi Panchvinshatika). Acharya Vishuddh sagar Maharaj ji said - Kuch nahi karna yahi to karna hai. But eventually by doing nothing - We apply less mind. Mind looses its sharpness.
One of my school teacher (non jain) said that Rest is rust.
We might excuse that we are doing real purusharth by atmanubhuti but may be we are actually becoming lazy and dumb.
Mind wants diverse experiences. Even some amount of iccha is better ? It motivates us to do something , although it gives temporary happiness.
Without any iccha life becomes neeras .
Jain philosophy says to eliminate all iccha.
(Svyambhu stotra - 14/3-68)
Sanyasi ji will say why giving birth to a child and taking up his responsibilities unnecessarily. They say why not remain celebate and give this time for atma kalyan ? But, then sanyasis are found passing time because life sometimes becomes too large to pass.
We get some purpose in life by creating a family.
On the other hand, Child goes school, learns technology, brings experiences. Like my dad does not know how to use laptop or net banking. I know modern technology.
I heard a pravachan of a Jain muni who told story of a man who started working at age 25 and died at age 65. What money he took with him after earning 40 years ? But, Work is not just for money! We get to experience world by this. We interact with people. Otherwise, what else we will do. Boredom and loneliness will take up and we will be surrounded by mental health issues. Work gives us society, and man being a social animal needs that.
May be it is Just Evolution ? And no such philosophy of soul or reincarnation is true? No cases are seen which can prove it. Merely 4 or 5 cases in 830 crore population at present and that too are not reliable.
Jain says that consciousness is not a byproduct of body. Rather gyan, darshan is a characteristic of soul. Sparsh , ras , gandh , varna is a characteristic of body. Lakshan bhed se bhed vigyan karo. (Gatha - 294 samaysaar)
Big ideal concepts like anant gyan , anant sukh atleast cannot be proved or achieved in modern times.
Kya hum Apne ko faltu mahaan maan rahe ?
All those riddhi of eating a bite of food and whole stomach gets full for days, what is its relevance in present times ? We need proper balanced diet else we will be malnourished.
Jain Geography - what is relevance in present times ? Science reached moon and it says that earth is round, these modern scientific views contradict Jain ideas. Here we say science is wrong. But when Jain said that kisi bhi vastu ka samool naash nahi hota and later when science said that Matter can neither be created nor destroyed but can only be transformed, we claimed our religion told this theory before science. So whatever will match with science , we will take credit for it. And whatever will not match with science, we will say that science is wrong.
Bharat gulam raha of foreigners - Mughals, english- Is it Problem with Indian philosophy ? Earlier people were mainly Jains ? Then Hindus converted us. Whoever attacked us he looted like Mohammad ghazni. Why ? We believed in sarvagyata and karma, punya and paap, pancham kaal mein esa hi hota hai, etc. that made us weak ? This is not how the world works. Here simple people with good karma are exploited. We should be clever enough that others don’t exploit us and straight enough not to exploit others. This option is available only when we are powerful else our exploitation is bound to happen.
People who have read Samaysaar cannot immerse in soul themselves, rather they need people/ society to whom they can teach (I heard of a teacher who gave 17 discourses on samaysaar). Is it because Man is a social animal and immersing in soul is not possible ?
Muni Aditya sagar ji said that 2nd wave corona caused less damage in India than other countries because India is a land of sanyasis. Vargna of tapasya is in air. Where were these vargna when we remained gulam for centuries ? And this land has shashwat janam and moksh bhumi and has vargna of countless bhavlingi munis ? Similarly we justify ourselves with different ideas to justify our religion. This is why India today is a land of numerous superstitions.
Do we not become Selfish by concept of My moksh , my karma ?
Our Intellectual capacity reduces - soul mein vihar karo, leen raho (ss kalash - 240). Slowly we become lazy and nithalla.
Is Mind not made for knowing and experiencing different things ?
What is relevance in modern times of Jain philosophy ? Why should a non Jain believe it ? What scientific view Jain has to offer except conservation of mass ?
Why not live a wordly life with a sense of detachment. Living in wordly matters and working for society and keeping in mind the ultimate reality -Death which will keep us down to earth. Man is afraid of death and separation so he might have created concepts of soul and reincarnation to reduce his sorrow. But, by accepting death, disease and old age and understanding temporary nature of human existence & living with a sense of detachment, we can also reduce our sufferings without relying on meta physical concepts.
I am not claiming any religion to be true or false. But, atleast in modern time when no such shukl dhyan etc. exist what is the use of reading about abhed shatkarak (Acharya Aklank’s Swaroop Sambodhan -25)?
Ultimately we have to live this life with a rational outlook. This life is important than any unknown future or past life.
Working and living in householder life, reading Jain adhyatma for an hour is fine but leaving all worldly affairs and just thinking about soul may bring boredom and loneliness in long run.
May be I am wrong.