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.
tion of soul-power. The other four are called non-destructive (Aghatiya). They are (1) feeling Karma, which brings about desirable and undesirable objects of pleasure-and-pain-feeling, (2) age Karma, which determines the duration of the soul's imprisonment in a condition of life, (3) body-making Karma which determines the formation of beautiful or ugly body, (4) family-determining Karma which invests the mundane soul with a high or low position or status. The most harmful of the 8 is the deluding Karma, which deludes the soul from right belief and right conduct. One who subdues delusion can conquer all the 8 Karmas and become a perfect conqueror.
ववहारस्त दरीसणमुवदेसो वरिणदो जिणवरेहि। जीवा एदे सव्वे अज्झवसाणादो भावाः ॥५१॥ व्यवहारस्य दर्शितं उपदेशो वर्णितो जिनवरैः। जीवा एते सर्वेऽध्यवसानादयो भावाः ॥ ५१ ।।
51. All these thought-activities, attachment, etc., (are) souls. This has been described by the Conquerors as a statement from the practical standpoint.
___Commentary. If a question is raised : Attachment and all other thoughtactivities having been described in Jain Scriptures as due to the soul's modifications while here they are said not to belong to the soul, why should there be such different opinions on the same subject? The Acharya answers : " Here they have been said to be material and not belonging to the soul, from the real point of view. Only from the practical standpoint, we can ascribe these material and impure thought-activities to the soul. Both opinions are correct, but each from its own different standpoint."
राया हुणिग्गदो त्तिय एसो वलसमुदयस्स आदेसो। ववहारेण दु उच्चदि तत्थेको णिग्गदो राया ॥५२॥ राजा खलु निर्गत इत्येष बलसमुदयस्यादेशः। व्यवहारेण तूच्यते तत्रैको निर्गतः राजा ॥ ५२ ॥
52. From the practical standpoint the remark is made of (his) military forces; “ the king has gone out" (although