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Chapter - 2
Samayasāra
attachment, aversion, delusion, influx [of karmic matter], subtle body, and gross physical body.
(Jīvassa) The soul (nathi vaggo na vaggaṇā kei phaddhayā neva ajjhappaṭhānā ṇeva ya aṇubhāgaṭhāṇa vā) is also devoid of class, group, degree of intensity and degree of fruition.
(Jīvassa) The soul (kei jogaṭṭhāṇā ṇatthi na bamdhaṭṭhāṇā vā neva ya udayaṭṭhāṇā ṇa maggaṇatthanam kei) displays neither any degree of spiritual discipline nor bondage, neither fruition nor it is subject to investigation based on varieties [mārgaṇasthāna].
(Jīvassa) The soul (noṭhidibamdhaṭṭhāṇā ṇa samkilesaṭhāṇā ṇeva visohiṭhāṇā ṇa samjamaladdhiṭhāṇam vā) possesses neither bondage nor defilemnt neither purity nor power of acquiring selfrestraint [samjamalabdhi].
(Jīvassa) The soul (neva ya jīvaṭṭhāṇā ṇa guṇaṭṭhāṇā ya atthi) possesses neither jīvasthāna [stages of biological development] nor guṇasthāna [states of spiritual development], (jena du ede savve poggaladavvassa pariṇāmā) all these are modifications of pudgaladravya (physical order of existence or matter).
Annotations:
In the above verses, the author presents a comprehensive picture of the nature of the pure soul. It is true that at the first sight, the presentation might appear to be merely negative and one might remark that it only tells us what the soul is not and does not throw any light as to what it is. However, no true and significant negative judgement is merely negative, all negation is really exclusion resting upon a positive basis.
Verse no. 3.11 emphasizes that the soul can never be an object of sentient experience, because it does not possess a single attribute which can be cognized through sense-organs. In the worldly life, however, the soul does not exist as a "disembodied spirit" and our intercommunion with other individuals is always through the medium of an alien material body. We are, therefore, liable to ascribe the attributes of the 'body' to the soul. But experience is not regarded as totally false because in actual life the dualistic separation (into a body and a soul) is impractical. And this fact will be admitted, in some succeeding verses, as an empirical truth/reality. However,
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