Bilkul sahi pakad rahe hain aap, aur aapne jo baat kahi hai uska mool arth main saaf‑saaf rakh deta hoon.

1. Simandhar Swami kahaan se deshnā dete hain?

Jain siddhānt ke anusār – - Shri Simandhar Swami Mahavideh Kshetra mein hi virājmān hain. - Vahīṅ unka samavasaraṇ hai, vahīṅ se ve wahaṅ ke jivon ko pratyakṣ deshnā dete hain. - Ve Bharat Kshetra mein pratyakṣ ākar deshnā nahīṅ dete – ye baat dono paramparā (Digambar aur Shvetāmbara) mein mānī jātī hai.

Yadi mere pichhle javāb se aisa laga ho ki aap keh rahe hain “Simandhar Swami yahin Bharat Kshetra mein pratyakṣ deshnā dete hain”, to woh galat samajh thī – aapne aisi koi bāt nahīṅ kahi, ye aap bilkul theek keh rahe hain.

1. “Mahavideh se hi Simandhar Swami Shatrunjay tirth ki mahimā karte hain” – is bāt ka siddhānt

Aapka sawāl ye hai ki Acharya Bhagwant ne aisa kaha hai ki: > Simandhar Swami Bhagwan khud Mahavideh Kshetra se hi Bharat Kshetra ke Shatrunjay tirth ki mahimā karte hain.

Isko do tarah se samjhā jātā hai (paramparā ke anusār bhāv‑arth mein):

- (1) Dravya se nahin, bhāv se sambandh Simandhar Swami ka sharīr, deshnā, samavasaraṇ sab Mahavideh mein hi hai. Jab unke samavasaraṇ mein Shatrunjay jaisā punyatirth ka varṇan hotā hai, uski mahimā kahi jātī hai, to isse matlab hai ki: - Tirthankar ke sarvajñatva se sab tirthoṅ ka gñān hai. - Ve apne deshnā mein kabhī‑kabhī anya kshetron ke punyatirthoṅ ka varṇan kar sakte hain. - Is arth mein kahā jātā hai ki “Simandhar Swami Shatrunjay tirth ki mahimā karte hain” – arthāt unke gñān mein, unki vānī mein, unki deshnā mein is tirth ka gunanvādan ho sakta hai, parantu sharīrik roop se yahān ākar stuti nahīṅ karte.

- (2) Bhakt ke bhāv se “jodne” kā tarīkā Kuch Shvetāmbara samudāy mein, viśeṣ rūp se Shatrunjay tirth aur Simandhar Swami dono kā ek sāth smaraṇ kiyā jātā hai: - Bhakt bhāv rakhte hain ki: “Hum yahān Shatrunjay par chadh rāhe hain, aur dur Mahavideh mein virājmān Simandhar Swami is pavitra tirth ki mahimā ko jānkar prasann ho rahe hain.” - Yeh bhāvnātmik bhāṣā hai, siddhāntik rūp se nahīṅ ki ve yahān pratyakṣ rūp se kuch bol rahe hain.

1. Digambar–Shvetāmbara drishti se

- Dono paramparā mānti hain ki: - Simandhar Swami Mahavideh mein hi hain. - Bharat Kshetra mein na unka janm, na ve yahan deshnā dete hain (is avasarpinī mein). - Shvetāmbara paramparā mein: - Simandhar Swami ki pratyakṣ stuti, mandir, stavan, prārthnā adhik miltī hai. - Kuch granthoṅ/pravacanoṅ mein Shatrunjay tirth ki mahimā ke saath Simandhar Swami ka ullekh miltā hai – bhāv‑arth yahi hai ki ek tirth (Shatrunjay) aur ek jīvat Tirthankar (Simandhar Swami) dono ka smaraṇ milkar bahut uttam punya ka kāraṇ banta hai. - Digambar drishti se: - Mahavideh aur wahaṅ ke Tirthankaroṅ ka siddhānt svīkṛt hai, - par vyavahār mein zyada zor hamāre 24 Bharat‑kṣhetriya Tirthankaroṅ ki upāsanā par hotā hai; - is tarah ke “Shatrunjay–Simandhar” jodne wale bhāv‑vacan kam milte hain.

1. Sār nishkarsh (aapke vākya ke sandarbh mein)

- Hāṅ, ye kahnā siddhānt se virodhī nahīṅ hai ki “Simandhar Swami Mahavideh mein rehte hue Bharat Kshetra ke Shatrunjay tirth ki mahimā karte hain” – agar isse hum aise samjheṅ ki - ve sarvajñ hain, - unke gñān mein Shatrunjay tirth ki bhi pūrī mahimā hai, - ve apne deshnā mein uska varṇan kar sakte hain. - Lekin yeh bāt nahīṅ kahī jānī chāhiye ki “Simandhar Swami pratyakṣ Bharat Kshetra mein aakar Shatrunjay par deshnā dete hain” – isko to Jain kosmology aur kāl‑chakra donon spaṣṭ rūp se nākārtī hain.

Agar aapko sirf yahi spaṣṭ karwānā thā ki aapne kabhī nahīṅ kahā ki ve yahan pratyakṣ deshnā de rahe hain, to hāṅ, aap bilkul sahi hain – aapki bāt ko galat tarah pakadnā mere javāb ki kami thī.

Simandhar Swami aur Mahavideh Kshetra par saral lekh Jain Knowledge par uplabdh hain – unheṅ aap wahan aur vistār se padh sakte hain