Sabse pehle ek baat clear kar lete hain:

1. Shri Simandhar Swami ka kshetra

- Simandhar Swami Mahāvideh Kshetra mein vartamān jeevit Tirthankar hain. - Vah Bharat Kshetra (jahan hum hain) mein na to janme, na yahan pravachan dete hain. - Unki mahima, deshna, samavasaran adi sab ka varnan Mahavideh Kshetra ke sandarbh mein aata hai, Shetrunjay ke sandarbh mein nahi. Aasan bhaasha mein: Unka “area” Mahavideh hai, Bharat nahi.

1. Shetrunjay Tirth ki mahima kisne ki hai?

- Shetrunjay (Palitana) ki mahima hamare Bharat Kshetra ke Tirthankaro, visheshkar Bhagwan Rushabhdev / Adinath, ane anek Siddh / Gandhar / Acharyo ne kahi hai. - Bahut stavan, stotra, granth Shetrunjay ko lekar likhe gaye hain, par woh sab Bharat Kshetra ki parampara mein. - Simandhar Swami ka Shetrunjay ka naam lekar “yahan ki mahima batai hai” aisa pramāṇik āgamik saboot se siddh nahi hai.

1. Jo Ācharya keh rahe hain “Simandhar Swami ne Bharat ke Shetrunjay ki mahima nahi ki” – kya yeh galat hai?

- Agar woh sirf itna keh rahe hain ki > “Jain āgamon / pramāṇ granthon mein aisa nahi milta ki Simandhar Swami ne Bharat Kshetra ke Shetrunjay Tirth ki pratyakṣ mahima kahi ho” to yeh baat siddhānt ke hisāb se sahi hai. - Kyun? - Simandhar Swami ka vās Mahavideh mein hai. - Unki deshna wahan ke jivon ke liye hai. - Hamare Shetrunjay ki directly unke mukhse mahima – aisa koi śrut-pramāṇ (āgamik, tattvārth, purāṇ ādi) se sthāpit nahi.

Isliye keval bhāv se, shraddhā se, koi bhi bhakt kah sakta hai: “Simandhar Swami jarur sab tirtho ko jaante honge, unki mahima hogi”, lekin ise āgamik “quoted statement” jaisa pramāṇ bana dena doctrinal roop se sahi nahi hai.

1. Bhakti aur Siddhānt dono alag cheezein hain

- Bhakti mein: - Aap Simandhar Swami ko, Shetrunjay ko, dono ko jitni ichchha ho utni shraddhā se pūjo, stuti karo – ismein koi virodh nahi. - Siddhānt / Āgama mein: - Jo cheez likhit granthon, Ācharya-paramparā, tattv-granth se siddh ho, usi ko “Tirthankar ne aise kaha” bolna chahiye. - Ācharya ka kām hota hai bhakti ko āgama se line mein rakhna, isliye woh kabhi-kabhi aisi baat kahte hain jo bhakt ko pehle thodi “kadvi” lage, par siddhānt se sahi hoti hai.

1. Aapka bhāv galat nahi hai

- Aapko lagta hai: “Itne mahan Tirthankar, to sab jagah ki mahima jarur hogi” – yeh shraddhā-bhav galat nahi. - Lekin jab sawal ye ho: > “Kya Simandhar Swami ne likhit / pramāṇ se siddh roop se Bharat ke Shetrunjay ki mahima kahi hai?” to iska jawaab “nahi, aisa pramāṇ nahi milta” hi dena padega. - Isliye Ācharya ko “galat” kehne ki zaroorat nahi; unka drashti-koṇ śāstra-pramāṇ par hai.

Aap chahein to Simandhar Swami ke baare mein aur vistār se yahan padh sakte hain

Sār:

• Simandhar Swami Mahavideh ke jeevit Tirthankar hain,
• Shetrunjay ki mahima Bharat ke Tirthankaro aur Siddho ne ki hai,
• Ācharya jab kehte hain “Simandhar Swami ne Bharat ke Shetrunjay ki mahima nahi ki” to woh śāstra-pramāṇ ki bhāsha mein baat kar rahe hote hain, isliye unko galat kehna Jain siddhānt ke hisāb se uchit nahi.