Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
from that of the sarīra-nāma-karma responsible for activity. Hence it is that the above twenty-one modes gati etc. are to be treated as characterized by audayika bhāva. 6.
The Sub-types of Pāriņāmika-bhāva :
Jivatva or being a soul—i.e. being conscious, bhavyatva or being worthy of mokşa, abhavyatva or being unworthy of mokşa--- these three modes are natural; that is to say, these modes result neither from a subsidence, nor from a destruction, nor from a subsidence-cum-destruction of karma but are present there since a beginningless time—that is, their presence follows from the existence of a soul. Hence it is that these modes are to be treated as characterized by pāriņāmika bhāva.
Question : These three modes-are they alone characterized by pāriņāmika bhāva ?
Answer : No, there are also others that are such. Question: Which ones ?
Answer : There are so many of them; e.g. existence, separateness, actorship, enjoyership, being possessed of qualities, being possessed of constituent-units, being possessed of an asankhyāta-number of constituent-units, being-non-ubiquitous, being devoid of colour.
Question : Why then are those three alone enumerated here?
Answer : The purpose here is to lay down the nature of a soul and that can be done only through a mention of its unique properties. Hence along with the modes characterized by aupaśamika bhāva etc. only those modes characterized by pāriņāmika bhāva are here mentioned which are unique to a soul. The modes existence etc. are no doubt characterized by pāriņāmika bhāva but they belong to a not-soul as much as they do to a soul. So they are not unique to a soul. And that is why they are not mentioned here. Even so, it is they that are indicated by the word ādi (=etc.) occurring at the end of the concerned word-compound; and the same meaning is derived by the