Soul Science Part 01

SR No.: 006928
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parsmal Agarwal
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 220
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

Page 91

Soul Science : Samayasāra by Jain Ācārya Kundakunda
53
Bhāva Karma and Nokarma at that moment. Based on the new actions, again the soul is bonded with the new Kārmika particles.
In this stanza, Ācārya is not distinguishing between pleasure and pain. He simply considers both as suffering. As compared to the spiritual bliss, the so called worldly or heavenly pleasure is also a suffering as it obstructs the bliss. This stanza says that the suffering is due to the Karma.
ववहारस्स दरीसणमुवएसो वण्णिदो जिणवरेहि। जीवा एदे सव्वे अज्झवसाणादओ भावा॥46॥ Vavahārassa darīsaņamuvaeso vaņņido jiņavarehim. Jīvā ede savve ajjhavasāņādao bhāvā. ||46|| व्यवहारस्य दर्शनमुपदेशो वर्णितो जिनवरैः। . जीवा एते सर्वेऽध्यवसानादयो भावाः।।46।।
"All these Adhyavasāna etc., are Jiva," this has been proclaimed by Jinendra Deva (also], [but that is) from the relative point of view. [46]
Annotation
To avoid any confusion, Ācārya Kundakunda is making it clear that even some Jain scriptures agree with the views expressed in Gāthā 39 to 42. For example, one may find the statements like: 'Don't hurt the physical body of any being because it is also a Jīva,' 'Don't be sinful by thoughts of hatred, greed, lust...,'..., etc. All such statements imply that physical body, Adhyavasāna etc., are Jīva. Ācārya Kundakunda accepts all such statements as the narrations by omniscients (Kevali Jina). But he makes it clear that such descriptions are to be understood as the narrations from the relative point of view. .
Such narrations from the relative point of view are also valuable. For example, these concepts are helpful in the spiritual practices of observing non-violence and remaining sin-free.
Question: The real point of view says that the physical body is
not the Self whereas the relative point of view says that it is