Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

Page 554

-I, 54]
45. Arahantas owe their status to the fruits of merits (or meritorious Karmas); their activities are the consequences of the Karmic operations; their activities are called kṣayiki (i.e., due to the destruction of Karmas), because they are free from infatuation etc.
46. The transmigratory existence would be an impossibility in the case of all the embodied beings, if the soul itself is naturally incapable of developing auspicious and inauspicious states.
47. That knowledge is called kṣayika (i.e., produced after the destruction of Karmas) which knows completely and simultaneously the whole range of variegated and unequal objectivity of the present and otherwise.
Pravacanasara
48. He, who does not know simultaneously the objects of the three tenses and in the three worlds, cannot know even a single substance with its (infinite) modifications.
49. A single substance has infinite modes and infinite are the classes of substances; if he does not know (them) simultaneously, how will he be able to know all of them?
50. If the knower, after coming into contact with the objectivity, produces knowledge step by step; that knowledge cannot be eternal, neither can it be kṣayika, nor all-pervasive.
389
51. The omniscience of the Jina knows simultaneously the (whole range of) variegated and unequal objectivity possible in all places and present in three tenses; indeed great is the glory of that knowledge! 52. The soul (of the omniscient), though knowing all the things, does not transform itself (under their influence), does not receive (anything external), nor does it become one among them; and hence it is said to be without Karmic bondage.1
*2. Him ever adores the devoted world consisting of Devas, Asuras and lords of men; so do I devotedly adore him.
53. Just as knowledge of various entities is super-sensitive with reference to non-concrete and sensitive with regard to concrete things, so too is happiness; that which is the best of those (two) should be realized.
54. That is pratyakṣa knowledge which perceives (all) the nonconcrete (things), among the concrete those (atoms etc.) that are beyond the scope of senses, those that are hidden and all others that are related to substances and also that are not.
1. Compare 32 ante.