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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Chapter - 10
Samayasāra
tance to right conduct as to right faith and right knowledge. While the right faith turns the soul in the right direction and the right knowledge illumines the path, the right conduct leads to the goal, i.e., final liberation is the fulfillment of conduct. Right knowledge and right conduct-spiritual discipline-are equally necessary for emancipation.
But the scriptures evaluate the conduct from both empirical as well as transcendental aspects. The routine acts of an asceticobservance of great vows, austerities, penance, restraint and discipline-constitute the right conduct form the empirical aspect or vyavahāra naya. Daily performance of eight kinds of discipline described in the last chapter is very essential for an ascetic life. All these are prescribed to control and restraint the impure impulses of the ascetic in the early stages of spiritual progress. Later on, however, these routine acts become less important in view of the observance of pure transcendental conduct or niscaya cāritra. From the transcendental aspect, the purer states of the soul attained by the aspirant, themselves constitute the right conduct. The acts of repentance, renunciation etc. are then relegated to an inferior status as they become non-essential. In the above verses Acārya Kundakunda clearly describes the constituents of the right conduct from the transcendental aspect.
Identification of the Self with the Fruition of Karma is the Cause of New Bondage
वेदतो कम्मफलं अप्पाणं जो दु कुणदि कम्मफलं । ì qui fa dufa aici gorer44 31gfag 11 2011 vedamto kammaphalam appāṇam jo du kuṇadi kammaphalam. so tam puno vi bamdhadi bīyam dukkhassa aṭṭhaviham..80
वेदंतो कम्मफलं मये कदं जो दु मुणदि कम्मफलं । सो तं पुणो वि बंधदि बीयं दुक्खस्स अट्ठविहं ॥ ८१ ॥ vedamto kammaphalam maye kadam jo du munadi kammaphalam. so tam puno vi bamdhadi bīyam dukkhassa aṭṭhaviham..81
वेदतो कम्मफलं सुहिदो दुहिदो य हवदि जो चेदा । सो तं पुणो वि बंधदि बीयं दुक्खस्स अट्ठविहं ॥ ८२ ॥ vedamto kammaphalam suhido duhido ya havadi jo cedā.
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