Samayasara

SR No.: 006530
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 336
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 15 MB

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Samayasara
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Chapter 10 centripetal force which does not allow it to escape. The centrifugal force is provided by the inherent purity of the soul and when it is powerful enough, the soul transcends the interaction with the fruition of karma and becomes enlightened. This enables it to discriminate between the self and the non-self. It renounces its interest in the non-self and stops enjoying the fruits of karma. Being uninfluenced by the causal potency of the karma, it does not enjoy the fruits of the karma but remains merely aware of their existence.
Basic Defect of an Abhavya
मुयदि पयडिमभव्वो सुड्डु वि अज्झाइदूण सत्थाणि । गुडदुद्धं पि पिबंता ण पण्णया णिव्विसा होंति ॥ १० ॥ na muyadi payaḍimabhavvo suṭṭhu vi ajjhāidūņa satthāṇi. guḍaduddham pi pibamtā ṇa paṇṇayā ṇivvisā homti..10
(Abhavvo satthāṇi suṭṭhu ajjhāidūņa vi payaḍim na muyadi) The abhavya, [i.e., the soul, fundamentally unfit for emancipation], is incapable of abandoning the fruition of karma, inspite of comprehending and being well-versed in the scriptures; (paṇṇayā gudaduddham pibamtā pi ņivvisā ṇa homti) just as a serpent does not become non-poisonous, inspite of drinking milk, sweetened with jaggery.
Annotations:
In this verse, reference is made to the inherent inability of those souls who are fundamentally unfit for being liberated. The author uses the analogy of a poisonous serpent which can never become non-poisonous even if it is constantly fed with sweetened milk to illustrate the case of an abhavya whose unfitness is fundamental. Just as the sweet milk is unable to transform the inherent poison to non-poison, so also the study of liberation-giving scriptures, is unable to remove the inherent attachment to the fruition of karma in an abhavya, who, therefore is destined never to leave the cycle of rebirths.
The Basic Characteristic of an Enlightened Soul णिव्वेयसमावण्णो णाणी कम्मफलं वियाणादि । महुरं कडुयं बहुविहमवेदगो तेण सो होदि ॥ ११ ॥ ṇivveyasamāvaṇņo ṇāṇī kammaphalam viyāṇadi.
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