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.
of non-self with those of the self. He, who understands this point of view properly, abandons these false notions which made him hitherto think that he is the doer of anger, and other impure thoughts. He becomes a right believer and then recognises the pure, peaceful and happy nature of his soul to be his own without any paint of passions and vibrations. He realises himself to be a perfect soul, as a group of inseparable pure attributes,
ववहारेण दु एवं करेदि घडपडरहादिदवाणि । करणाणि य कम्माणि य णोकम्माणीह विविहाणि ॥१०५॥ व्यवहारेण त्वात्मा करोति घटपटरथादि द्रव्याणि । करणानि च कर्माणि च नो कर्माणीह विविधानि ॥ १०५॥
105. It is from the practical standpoint that the soul produces pitcher, cloth, chariot (and other) things, senses, and Karmas and quasi-Karmas of various kinds in this world.
____Commentary. Really all the modifications of matter are caused by matter only. The thought-activity or conscious-activity of mundane souls becomes an auxiliary cause of them. Therefore it is from the practical standpoint that souls are said to be the causes of Karmas, etc., etc. It is wrong to say that the soul is or can be in its true nature the cause of any modifications, excepting its own.
जदि सो परदव्वाणि य करिज णियमेण तम्मओ होज । जह्मा ण तम्मो तेण सो ण तेसिं हादि कत्ता ॥ १०६॥ यदि स परद्रव्याणि च कुर्यान्नियमेन तन्मयो भवेत् । यस्मान्न तन्मयस्तेन स न तेषां भवति का ॥१०६॥
106. And if that (soul) produces the non-self substances in reality, (then) it becomes one with them. Because (it is) not one with them, therefore the soul is not the doer of them.
Commentary. Thought-activities of mundane souls may be said to be the auxiliary cause of Karmic modifications etc., but we cannot say that the soul is the root cause of these. If this were the case, then the soul would be transformed into non-soul. As this is not possible, the soul cannot be the real producer of them.