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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Samayasāra
Chapter - 1
its defilement and degradation and the primal and most fundamental condition of its worldly existence, punctụated with birth and death in unbroken succession, is delusion or perverse belief that consists in mistaking the non-self for the self. Thus, if the soul has to realize itself, it must first recognize the respective characteristics of the pure self and the defiling non-self.
Now the trinity-right faith (darśana), right knowledge (jñāna) and right conduct (cāritra)-is not only the characteristics of the soul, but also the fundamental factors of spiritual progress towards emancipation. This (opening) verse, therefore, determines the direction of the spiritual progress. It states that whenever the soul indulges in identifying the defiling substance-pudgala as the real self, it is going away from its goal and object. On the other hand whenever it is absorbed in its own innate qualities-the holy trinity, it moves nearer towards self-realization.
The Infinite Glory of the Pure Self एयत्तणिच्छयगदो समओ सव्वत्थ सुंदरो लोए।
बंधकहा एयत्ते तेण विसंवादिणी होदि॥३॥ eyattaņicchayagado samao savvattha sumdaro loe.
bamdhakahā eyatte teņa visamvādiņi hodi.. 3 (Eyatta-nichhaya-gado) one who has attained the transcendental harmony (samao) i.e., the pure soul (loge) in the entire cosmos (savvattha) everywhere and always (sumdaro) shines with glory (tena) that is why (bamdhakahā) the talk of defilement with another (hodi) is (visamvādiņi) loathsome. Annotations :
Anything in the cosmos which is befouled/polluted by a foreign substance loses its purity and magnificence. The word 'samaya' means pure self and hence applies to each of the six eternal cosmic substances, But here, since, we are talking about jīva (the conscious substance), samaya means pure (uncontaminated) soul.
It is admitted that purity and perfection is integral to the soul and realization of the same is not a new creation but just getting rid of the impurity caused by the presence of a foreign element. Perversion or pollution is always disgusting while purity which is
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