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Verse 36
जहकालेण तवेण य भुत्तरसं कम्मपुग्गलं जेण । भावेण सडदि णेया तस्सडणं चेदि णिज्जरा दुविहा ॥ (36)
गाथा भावार्थ - जिस आत्मा के परिणामरूप भाव से कर्मरूपी पुद्गल फल देकर नष्ट होते हैं वह तो भाव-निर्जरा है और सविपाक निर्जरा की अपेक्षा से यथाकाल अर्थात् काल-लब्धिरूप काल से तथा अविपाक निर्जरा की अपेक्षा से तप से, जो कर्मरूप पुद्गलों का नष्ट होना है सो द्रव्य-निर्जरा है।
Dispositions of the soul to get rid of the karmic matter already bound with it, either when it falls off by itself on fruition, or when it is annihilated through asceticism (tapas), constitute the subjective shedding of karmas (bhāva nirjarā). The actual dissociation of the karmic matter from the soul is the objective shedding of karmas (dravya nirjarā). Thus nirjarā should be known of two kinds.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Ācārya Kundkund's Pañcāstikāya-Sāra
संवरजोगेहिं जुदो तवेहिं जो चिट्ठदे बहुविहेहिं । कम्माणं णिज्जरणं बहुगाणं कुणदि सो णियदं ॥
(144)
That mighty personality which after closing the springs of Karmas, good and evil, and equipped with the faculty of pure thought, controls its life according to manifold forms of tapas, will undoubtedly be able to rid itself of Karmas manifold.
Commentary – The faculty of pure thought, protected from all Karmas, associated with twelve kinds of tapas, and leading
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