Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

SR No.: 001197
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 20 MB

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DIFFERENTIATION OF INFLUX with the intention of killing a being. This is intentional, for it is done knowingly. Another performs the same action out of intoxication or negligence. This is unintentional, as it is not done knowingly. The substratum is substance. Its energy is its potency. (These vary from instant to instant.) Owing to differences such as these, the nature of influx also differs. The difference in cause leads to difference in effect.'
The substratum with its subdivisions is explained next.
___ अधिकरणं जीवाजीवाः ।
Adhikaranam jivājīvāḥ ... 7. The living and the non-living constitute the substrata. • The characteristic attributes of the soul (the living) and the non-soul (the non-living) have been explained already. If so, why are these mentioned again? It is for indicating that these constitute the substrata. The living and the non-living constitute the substrata, and this special property should be declared. What is it? It is the condition of being the instruments of injury and so on. Some say that the primary substances are two, and so the dual must have been used in the sutra and not the plural. But it is not so, for the modes constitute the substrata. The substance possessed of specific modes is the substratum, and not mere substance. Hence the plural is used. Of what do the living and the nonliving constitute the substrata ? From the context it means that these constitute the substrata of influx. The substratum of the living is described first. - आद्यं संरम्भसमारम्भारम्भयोगकृतकारितानुमतकषायfreferafe : 7:
Hall Adyam samrambhasamārambhārambhayogakrtakāritānu
matakaṣāyavisesaistristristriścatuścaikaśaḥ (8) 8. The substratum of the living is of 108 kinds. 1 Complete absorption in a plan to commit violence etc. with
1 Literal version. The substratum of the living is planning to commit violence, preparation for it and commencement of it, by activity, doing, causing it done and approval of it, and issuing from the passions, which are of three, three, three and four respectively.