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Bhagavai 7:1:4-6
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of instantaneous activity free from passions.
Abhayadevasūri has explained adhikarana (instruments of destruction) as plough-share, vehicle, etc. which give refuge to passions. Although the follower of the Sramana Order is observing the performance of sāmāyika, his relationship with the instruments of destruction has not ceased altogether; so his soul is adhikarani (i.e., possessed of adhikarana), and as such, he is not capable of engaging himself in instantaneous activity free from passions.
We can explain the term 'adhikarani'--the instinctive urge of employing the instruments of violence (physical and volitional) on the basis of non-abstinence, which is more relevant here. To Gautama's query to the Lord 'whether the soul was only adhikarani-the operator of the instrument of violence or also itself the adhikarana—the instrument of violence', the Lord replied that it was both. This is because the soul of the lay follower of the Srumana Order, even when he is practising sāmāyika, is not free from the instinct of non-abstinence. 'Instantaneous activity free from passions' is not possible for him who is still adhikarana himself.
Srimajjayācārya has elaborately expounded the nature of 'adhikarana'.
We may conclude that the purport of the present Sūtra is that the purity of soul cannot be ascertained on the basis of the external state of the soul. The basis of such ascertainment is the intrinsic vibrations (pure state) of the soul, whether they are free from the vicious instincts of non-abstinence or strongly rooted in the virtue of abstinence. Although the lay follower of the Sramana Order, when practising sāmāyika is externally completely calm and quiet, his volitional vibrations are vitiated with non-abstinence and passions, and so, in the spiritual sense, his passions are neither subsided nor annihilated and as such his activity cannot be airyāpathikī.
1. Bha. 3.148. 2. Ibid., 7.20. 3. Ibid., 7.21. 4. Bha. Vị. 7.4-ātmā-jīvaḥ adhikaraṇāni-halasakatādīni kaşāyāśrayabhūtāni yasya santi
so'dhikaranī. tataśca 'āyāhikaranavattiyam ca ņam'tti ātmano'dhikaranāni ātmädhikaraṇāni tānyeva pratyayah-karanam yatra kriyakarane tadātmādhikaranapratyayam sāmparāyiki kriyā kriyata iti
yogah. 5. Bha. 16.8-9. 6. Bha. Jo. 2.111.39-68.
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Samanovāsagassa anāuttihiņsā-padam 7.6 samanovāsagassa ņam bhamte! puvvāmeva tasapānasamārambhe paccakkhāe
bhavai, pudhavisamārambhe upaccakkhāe bhavai. se ya pudhavim khanamāne annayaram tasam pānam vihimsejjā, se nam bhumte! tam vayam aticarati?
no inatthe samatthe, no khalu se tassa ativāyāe äuttati. The Topic of Violence perpetrated unintentionally by a Lay Follower of Sramaņas
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