Gandharwad

SR No.: 011044
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha
Publication Year: 1942
Total Pages: 579
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 63 MB

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. . Ganadharavada
__Trans.--14 Knowledge etc., are not the gunas of a body, as it is mūtra ( corporeal ) etc, like a ghata. Therefore that ( object ) which has knowledge etc., as its gunas, is the soul which is separate from the body. ( 1562 )
टीका-प्रयोगः-देहस्य सम्बन्धिनो गुणादयो गुणा न भवन्त्येव, तस्यमृतिमत्त्वात् चाक्षुषत्वाद् वा घटवत् । न च द्रव्यरहितो गुणः समस्ति । ततो यो ज्ञानादिगुणानामनुरूपोऽमूर्तः, अचाक्षुषश्च गुणी, स देहातिरिक्तो जीवो ज्ञातव्यः । आह-ज्ञानादयो न देहस्येति प्रत्यक्षबाधितमिदम् , देह एवज्ञानादिगुणानां प्रत्यक्षेणैव ग्रहणात् । तदयुक्तम् , अनुमानबाधितत्वादस्य प्रत्यक्षस्य । तथाहि-इहेन्द्रियातिरिक्तो विज्ञाता, तदुपरमेऽपि तदुपलब्धार्थानुस्मरणात् , यो हि यदुपरमेऽपि यदुपलब्धमर्थमनुस्मरति, स तस्मादर्थान्तरं दृष्टः, यथा-पञ्चवातायनोपलब्धार्थानुस्मर्ता देवदत्त इत्यादि वायुभूतिप्रश्ने . वक्ष्याम इति ॥ १४ (१५६२)॥
___D. C.-The gunas such as knowledge, cannot belong to the body; for, the body is mūrta and cāksusa ( visible ) as is the case with a ghata. Moreover, a guna cannot exist without a substance. Now knowledge etc., are a mūrta gunas. Therefore their gunin, too, must be amūrta etc., and hence it cannot be the body which is mūrta. Thus that very gurin is the soul.
It may be argued that we see with our own eyes that knowledge etc., belong to the body. But this is a wrong argument as it is not consistent with the following inference :
The knower is distinct from senses; for, even when the senses cease ( to function ), the object realized by means of them is remembered. One who remembers an object realized by means of another, even when that another ceases, is distinct from it, e. g., Devadatta. who remembers the object realized by means of the five windows. This we shall expound while answering the question of Vayubhūti.
Desirous of arriving at a conclusion, the author says:--