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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THE CYCLE OF MATTER
eyes, perception by the senses other than the eyes, clairvoyant perception and omniscient perception. How are these, knowledge and perception, different? The one (knowledge) is with details, and the other (perception) without details. Apprehension of the mere object (the universal) is perception, and awareness of the particulars is knowledge. These occur in succession in ordinary mortals (non-omniscients), but simultaneously in those who have annihilated karmas. Though perception occurs first, knowledge being more worthy is mentioned first. In the section dealing with right knowledge, the five kinds of right knowledge were explained formerly. But here, the wrong kinds of knowledge are also mentioned, as this is the section dealing with consciousness'in general. Hence it is mentioned as of eight kinds.
Consciousness in general, which is the characteristic common to all the souls, has been described first. The souls marked by consciousness are of two kinds. संसारिणो मुक्ताश्च
Il goll Samsāriņo muktāśca
(10) 10. The transmigrating and the emancipated souls.
Samsaranam means transmigration (metem psychosis), cycle of wandering. Those, who undergo or are subjected to this cycle of wandering, are the transmigrating beings. This whirling-round is of five kinds, the cycle of matter, the cycle of space, the cycle of time, the cycle of incarnation (state of existence), and the cycle of thought or emotion.
The cycle of matter is of two kinds, the cycle of quasi-karmic matter and the cycle of karmic matter. The cycle of quasi-karmic matter is described first. Particles of matter fit for the three kinds of body and the six kinds of completion or development are taken in by someone soul (jiva) in one instant. These remain in the same condition in wbich they were taken in with regard to their greasiness or dryness, colour, smell, etc. --either intense or feeble or intermediate--and fall off in the second instant etc. After that, unabsorbed particles are taken in and cast off infinite times. Similarly, mixed particles are