Samayasara

SR No.: 001607
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: Hiralal Jain, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 370
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Philosophy
File Size: 8 MB

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CHAPTER I
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is called atmakhyāti, knowledge of the Self par excellence, a name introduced by Amộtacandra in his commentary on this gātha. This term, ātmakhyāti or Self-knowledge, is also used by him to designate the whole of his commentary on Samayasāra.
जो पस्सदि अप्पाणं अबद्धपुढे अणण्णयं णियदं ।
अविसेसमसंजुत्तं तं सुद्धणयं वियाणीहि ॥ १४ ॥ jo passadi appāņain abaddhapuţtham anannayam niyadan avisesamasanjuttan tam suddhaņayam viyāṇīhi (14)
यः पश्यति आत्मानं अबद्धस्पृष्टमनन्यकं नियतम् ।
अविशेषमसंयुक्तं तं शुद्धनयं विनानीहि ॥ १४ ॥ 14. He who perceives the Átmā as not bound, not touched, not other than itself; steady, without any difference and notcombined, know ye him, as suddha-naya or the pure point of view.
COMMENTARY The person who has the pure point of view is himself called the pure point of view according to this gātha, as it is not altogether incorrect to equate the person with his intellectual attitude.
Not bound, not tovched: though the Atmā is associated with matter, Karmic and non-Karmic, it is neither bound by that matter nor contaminated by it. Really it retains its pristine purity just as a lotus leaf in water remains untouched by it.
Karmic matter means the subtle particles of matter suitable to constitute the subtle Karmic body which continues to be in association with the soul throughout its transmigratory existence of births and deaths till the Self obtains liberation by the destruction of Karma when the Karmic body vanishes. Non-Karmic matter refers to the material molecules constituting the organic body of each individual being, the body which appears at birth and disintegrates after death.
Not other than itself: though the soul is subject to different modifications in its roaming about in different gatis as a man or a deva, etc., the soul throughout retains its identity just as clay remains clay while it is shaped into different forms over the potter's wheel.