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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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
आसि मम पुत्वमेदं अहमेदं चावि पुत्वकालहि । होहिदि पुरणोवि मज्झं अहमेदं चावि होस्लामि ॥ २६ ॥
आसीन्मम पूर्वमेतत् अहमिदं चैव पूर्वकाले । भविष्यति पुनरपि मम अहमिदं चैव भविष्यामि ॥ २६ ॥
26. It was mine formerly, I (was) its in the past time. (It) will again be mine ; I also will be it.
एवंतु असंभूदं आदवियव्वं करेदि सम्मढो। भूदत्थं जाणंतो ण करेदि दु तं असम्मूढो ॥२७॥ एवं त्वसद्भूतमात्मविकल्पं करोति संमूढः।। भूतार्थ जानन् न करोति पुन: तमसंमूढः ॥ २७ ॥
27. Thus the wrong-believer indulges in such perverse thought-activity of soul. But a right-believer, knowing the real standpoint, does not so indulge.
Commentary. Gathas 25-27 tell us that the slightest identification of the self with the non-self, of the soul with the material accidents of physical existence, is the sure mark of wrong belief. This leads to delusion which overpowers meditation and takes it into wrong channels, 'I'. Me.". Mind, 'Soul'-that is the real entity, and the consciousness of it in its pure essence, its chief object. Delusion leads to wrong belief in things of past, present and future. A right-believer is ever conscious that nothing other than his self can ever be he, or his mind, and that he can never be other than his real nature.
अण्णाणमोहिदमदी मज्झमिणं भणदि पुग्गलं दव्वं । वद्धमवद्धं च तहा जीवो बहुभावसंजुत्तो ॥२८॥ अज्ञानमोहितमतिर्ममेदं भणति पुद्गलद्रव्यं । बद्धमबद्धं च तथा जीवो बहुभावसंयुक्तः ॥ २८ ॥
28. The soul whose intellect is deluded by wrong knowledge and (which is) with many kinds of thought-activity, says of the matter-substance (whether it is) bound or not bound (with the soul) : this is mine.