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.
is modified into thought-activity of pleasure-feeling. Even the impure thoughts entertained in doing many worldly actions and in enjoying pleasure or suffering pain are not due to the souls themselves. The soul is the ultimate senser, experiencer, or knower of all thoughts, but it is not the cause. It is the matter-clad impure soul which is the cause. If these Karmic causes are not present, the soul will always remain pure, performing its own pure modification and enjoying its own pure bliss.
मिच्छत्तं पुरा दुविहं जीवमजीवं तहेव अण्णां ।
विरदि जोगो मोहो कोधादीया इमे भावा ॥ ६४ ॥ मिथ्यात्वं पुनर्द्विविधं जीवोऽजीवस्तथैवाज्ञानं । अविरतियोगो मोहः क्रोधाद्या इमे भावाः ॥ ६४ ॥
94. Again, wrong belief (is) of two kinds, (of the nature of) soul, (and of the nature of) non-soul. Similarly wrong knowledge, vowlessness, (soul's) vibratory activity, delusion, anger, etc., these conditions (are each of two kinds).
Commentary.
In order to explain properly the modifications of soul and matter separately, the Author has pointed out that wrong belief etc., are each of two kinds. Material Karmas having nature of effecting wrong belief, ignorance, vowlessness, passions and vibrations belong to matter, i.e., Karmic molecules which have flowed into and bound the mundane souls on account of their vibrations and passionate thoughts; while consciousness of soul affected with thought of wrong-belief, ignorance, vowlessness, passions and vibrations of soul-spatial units belong to soul as their root cause, though they have the operation of material Karmas as auxiliary cause. Just as a mirror shows the reflection of a peacock the modification of clearness of the mirror does no doubt belong to mirror itself, but it is due to the auxiliary cause of the presence of the peacock. Different colours and forms of the body of a peacock appearing in a mirror do not belong to the mirror but to peacock itself which is quite separate from the mirror. Thus we can talk of the mirror peacocks with reference to modification in the mirror and of the animal peacock with reference to its body outside the mirror. Similarly wrong belief etc., should be known. Had there been no operation