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 VIII
COMMENTARY
The proposition in thought, "I bind or I release" in order to be true must have as its objective meaning, actual bondage or release of jivas, as corroborative evidence. But as a matter of fact jivas are bound or released according to their own thought conditions. Another person's thought would be entirely ineffective, therefore, to bind or release other jivas. Hence your thought, "I bind or I release other jivas" is entirely false since it is not corroborated by objective evidence. Hence your claim, "I bind or release other jivas" is only illusory.
Next the author describes the behaviour of one who is deluded by such ineffectual and fruitless thought. सव्वे करेइ जीवो अज्झवसाणेण तिरियणेरइए ।
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देवमणुवे य सव्वे पुण्णं पावं च अणेयविहं ॥ २६८॥
savve karei jiva ajjhavasāņeņa tiriyaneraie devamanuve ya savve punņam pāvam ca aneyaviham (268) सर्वान् करोति नीवोऽध्यवसानेन तिर्यङनैरयिकान् ।
देवमनुनांश्च सर्वान् पुण्यं पापं च नैकविधम् ॥ २६८॥
268. The Self, by its own thought activity creates for itself the form of beings-sub-human, hellish, celestial, and human and also various types of virtue and vice. धमाधम्मं च तहा जीवाजीवे अलोयलोयं च । सव्वे करेइ जीवो अज्भवसाणेण अप्पाणं ॥ २६६॥ dhammādhammam ca taha jivajive aloyaloyam ca savve karei jivo ajjhavasāņeņa appāṇaṁ (269) धर्माधर्मं च तथा जीवाजीवौ अलोकलोकं च ।
सर्वान् करोति जीवः अध्यवसानेन आत्मानम् ॥ २६९॥
269. Similarly, the Self through its own thought-activity may identify itself with the categories of dharma or adharma, soul, non-soul, the Universe and the Beyond.
COMMENTARY
The will to do a thing makes a person the doer of that act. Thus the will to kill makes him a killer, the will to steal makes him a thief and so on. Thus a particular conative tendency in the Self makes that Self the agent of the corresponding action.