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.
gradual increases of purity are not of the nature of a soul, when it is considered from the real point of view. The soul is quite free from all these soul classes, soul-quests and stages. They are rela - tions and conditions springing up from its connection with matter.
तत्थभवे जीवाणं संसारत्थाणं होंति वण्णादी । संसारमुक्काणं त्थिदु वराणादओ केई ॥ ६६॥ तत्र भवे जीवानां संसारस्थानां भवंति वर्णादयः । संसारप्रमुक्तानां न संति खलु वर्णादयः केऽपि ॥ ६६ ॥
66. In particular incarnations of mundane souls colour, etc., are (found ). But in (the souls ) liberated from cycle of existence there are no colour, etc., whatsoever.
Commentary.
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Colour, etc., cannot be the attributes of a soul. Attributes are always inseparable from their substances, while colour, etc., are only seen in the material bodies, as belonging to matter. As soul is connected with them, they too are ascribed to souls from the practical point of view. When souls are free from material bondage, these vanish like passing sunshine and shade. Had they been attributes, they would not have become disassociated but must have been found in pure souls also.
जीवो चैव हि दे सव्वे भावत्ति माणसे जदि हि । जीवस्साजीवरस य यत्ति विसेसो हि दे कोई ॥ ६७ ॥ जीवश्चैव ह्येते सर्वे भावा इति मन्यसे यदि हि । जीवस्य जीवस्य च नास्ति विशेषस्तु ते कोऽपि ॥ ६७ ॥
67. And also if thou holdest certainly all these conditions (to be) in the soul, really, then in reality (there ) does not remain (any) difference whatsoever between the soul and the non-soul.
Commentary.
The special qualifications of matter are colour, etc, which distinguish it from soul and other immaterial substances. If these attributes be taken to be of the inseparable nature of the soul matter alone will be the existing substance. But that is impossible