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

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tential nature is (already) determined, is the modification with its varieties of figuration etc.
Pravacanasara
61. Human, hellish, sub-human and divine modifications of the soul are mutually different with regard to the figuration (of the body) etc., because of the operation of Nama-karman.1
62. The nature of the substance established in its existential condition is said to be three-fold (viz., consisting of origination, permanence and destruction); he, who knows it in detail, will not be infatuated with foreign substances.
63. The soul is constituted of the manifestation of consciousness; manifestation of consciousness is towards knowledge and cognition; the manifestation of consciousness of the soul is either auspicious or inauspicious.2
64. If the manifestation of consciousness is auspicious, the soul accumulates merit; if inauspicious, sin; in the absence of both there is no accumulation (of Karmas).
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65. He, who recognises the great Jinas, attends on Siddhas as well as saints and is compassionate towards living beings, has an auspicious resultant of consciousness.3
66. He, who is steeped in sensual pleasures and passions, who is given to false scriptures, evil intentions and wicked words, and who is cruel and goes astray, has an inauspicious resultant of conscious
ness.
67. Being free from inauspicious manifestation of consciousness and without the auspicious one towards foreign substances and being indifferent, I meditate on my self that is essentially constituted of knowledge. 68. I am neither the body, nor the mind, nor the speech, nor the cause thereof, nor the agent, nor the commissioner, nor the consentor of the doers.
69. It is pointed out that body, mind and speech are constituted of material substances; and the material substance, in turn, is a lump of atomic substances.
70. I am neither made of matter, nor is the matter lumped by me; therefore, I am neither the body nor the maker of that body.
1. Compare P. 16.
2. See P. 40; TS. II, 8-9.
3. Compare I, 69 ante.