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Verse 13
स्वभावतोऽशुचौ काये रत्नत्रयपवित्रिते। निर्जुगुप्सा गुणप्रीतिर्मता निर्विचिकित्सता ॥१३॥
सामान्यार्थ - स्वभाव से अपवित्र किन्तु रत्नत्रय – सम्यग्दर्शन, सम्यग्ज्ञान और सम्यक्चारित्र - से पवित्र शरीर में ग्लानि रहित, गुणों से प्रेम करना, निर्विचिकित्सा अंग माना गया है।
The body, by its very nature, is impure but it gets purified when the soul is endowed with the Three Jewels (ratnatraya) of right faith, right knowledge and right conduct. To adore the virtuous, without aversion for his body, is the third limb, being revulsionfree (nirvicikitsā guņa), of right faith.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Amộtacandra's Puruşārthasiddhyupāya:
क्षुत्तृष्णाशीतोष्णप्रभृतिषु नानाविधेषु भावेषु । द्रव्येषु पुरीषादिषु विचिकित्सा नैव करणीया ॥ २५ ॥
A right believer should not entertain feeling of revulsion (disgust) in conditions such as hunger, thirst, cold, or heat, and at the sight of materials like excretion.
___Jain, Vijay K. (2012), “Shri Amritachandra Suri's Puruşārthasiddhyupāya”, p. 20.
Jaina Doctrine lays great emphasis on the purity of the soul rather than of the body. A Jaina saint aspires for the purity of his soul at the expense of the purity of his body. It is better to have a pure soul in a naturally impure body than an impure soul in an impure body but embellished with ornaments and sprayed with
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