Samayasara

SR No.: 001620
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1930
Total Pages: 234
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Canon, & Discourse
File Size: 15 MB

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SAMAYASARA.
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CHAPTER V.
Inflow of Karmas. मिच्छत्तं अविरमणं कसाय जोगाय सरण सरणादु । बहुविहभेदा जीवे तस्सेव मणएणपरिणामा ॥ १७१॥ मिथ्यात्वमविरमणं कषाययोगौ च संज्ञासंज्ञास्तु । बहुविधभेदा जीवे तस्यैवानन्यपरिणामाः ॥ १७१ ॥
171. In the soul, wrong belief, vowlessness, passion, and vibratory activity, living, and non-living, and (their) very many varieties (are) not any other's but its own thought. activities.
Commentary. In practice, from the point of view of condition, à seeker after Truth must know that he is responsible for his own destiny. His soul has got the capacity of modification. He should endeavour to change his thoughts, from impurity to purity. Unless a person believes that these defects are injurious to him, he would try to remove them. Wrong-belief, etc., as Kärmas are material while wrong belief, etc., as impure thoughts of non-living soul are living.
णाणावरणादीयस्त ते दु कम्मस्स कारणं होति । तेर्सिपि होदि जीवो रागदोसादिभावकरो॥ १७२ ॥ ज्ञानावर णाद्यस्य ते तु कर्मणः कारणं भवति । तेषामपि भवति जीवः रागद्वेषादिभावकरः ॥ १७२ ॥
172. They are the causes (of inflow) of karmic matter of the knowledge-obscuring and other kinds. The soul is also the cause of such thought-activities as love, hatred.
Commentary. The material Karmas previously bound by a soul, operate at their maturity and fall off. If the soul's thought-activity is strong
enough not to be affected by their operation, they will fall off . without bringing inflow of fresh Karmas. If the soul's thoughtactivity is not strong enough, it will be modified into its conscious