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.
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realize real peacefulness and happiness. But this is wrong. Soul can never become non-soul.
श्रह पुण अण्णो कोहो अण्णुवमोगप्पगो हवदि चेदा । जह कोहो तह पञ्चय कम्मं णोकम्ममवि भएणं ॥ १२२॥ अथ पुनः अन्यः क्रोधोऽन्य उपयोगात्मको भवति चेतयिता। यथा क्रोधस्तथा प्रत्ययाः कर्म नोकर्माप्यन्यत् ॥ १२२ ॥
122. And if (you consider that) anger is one thing (&) the conscious (soul) full of attention (is really) (quite) another (thing); then like anger, the (other) causes (of bond. age), the Karmic and quasi-Karmic (matter) also (should be taken to be) other (than the soul).
___Commentary. If one cannot believe anger to be the natural quality of soul, then one should be convinced also of all the impurities in the thirteen stages along with Karmic and quasi-Karmic matter to be quite distinct from pure soul. Really this is the case from t real point of view. Every mundane soul should be considered by this view to be a pure soul, devoid of any activity of a material nature.
जीवेण सयं वद्धं ण सयं परिणमदि कम्मभावेण । जदि पुग्गल दवामिणं अप्परिणामी तदा होदि ॥ १२३ ॥ जीवे न स्वयं बद्धं न स्वयं परिणमते कर्मभावेन । यदि पुद्गलद्रव्यमिदमपरिणामी तदा भवति ॥ १२३ ॥
123. If Karmic matter is not itself bound in the soul, is not itself transformed into Karmic modifications (of 8 kinds); then that (Karmic matter) would become (a substance) incapable of modification.
Commentary. It is the nature of every substance to modify itself into different forms. If it be supposed that matter renains unmodified, there can be no bondage of Karmas with the soul. Pure souls do not possess the activity of binding Karmas. Impure souls, though