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

Page 55

THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
तह जीवे कम्माणं णो कम्माणं च पस्सिदुं वरणं । जीवस्स एस वणो जिणेहि ववहारदो उत्तो ॥ ६४ ॥ तथा जीवे कर्मणां च नोकर्मणां दृष्ट्वा वर्णं । जीवस्यैष वर्षो जिनैर्व्यवहारतः उक्तः ॥ ६४ ॥
64. Similarly, seeing the Karmic matter and colour of physical matter in the soul, (it) has been said by the Conquerors from the practical standpoint, this colour (is) of the soul."
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Commentary.
The expression This road is looted" only means that the travellers proceeding by that road are robbed, and not that the road itself is the subject of robbery. Similarly, in common parlance, from the practical standpoint, we speak of mundane souls as black, white, red, one-sensed or five-sensed, gross, fine, beautiful, ugly. This is but the practical point of view. These phrases are not true in their literal sense. The wise know that colour, touch, taste, senses, etc., are attributed of matter only, and cannot properly be predicated of the true soul. From the pure real standpoint therefore, the soul is only itself, pure, perfect and immaterial ; and all the qualities of colour, etc., are true of it only from the practical point of view, as in its mundane condition it is bound with matter, and these qualities are rightly predicable of matter.
एवं रसगंधफासा संठाणादीय जे समुदिट्ठा ।
सव्वे ववहारस्य च्छ्रियदराहू ववदिति ॥ ६५ ॥ एवं गंधरसस्पर्श संस्थानादयः ये समुद्दिष्टाः । सर्वे व्यवहारस्य च निश्चयद्रष्टारो व्युपदिशंति ॥ ६५ ॥
65. Similarly taste, smell, touch, bodily-figure, etc., which have all been described (before), (have been described) from the practical standpoint: thus do the seers of reality preach.
Commentary.
All the conditions produced in souls bound up with Karmic matter, as described in Gathas 55 to 60, are ascribed to souls from the practical point of view only. Even the spiritual stages or the