Samayasara OR Nature of Self

SR No.: 011119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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expose the alien nature of the various attributes, physical and psychical, with which it is associated in its impure state, an association which leads the uninstructed to erroneous conclusions
SAMAYSARA
अट्ठविह पिय कम्म सव्व पुग्गलमय जिणा विति । जस्स फल त वुच्चइ दुक्ख ति विपच्चमाणस्स ॥४५॥ Atthaviham pi ya kammam savvam poggalamayam jină vinti Jassa phalam tam buchchayı dukkham ti vipachchamānassa अष्टविधमपि चकर्म सर्वं पुद्गलमय जिना ब्रुवन्ति । यस्य फल तदुच्यते दुखमिति विपच्यमानस्य ॥४५॥
45 The Jinas declare that all the eight kinds of karmas are material in nature, and also suffering which is the effect of karmic frution (is said) to be material
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COMMENTARY
According to Jaina metaphysics the various karmas are intrinsically material though of subtle form Since they are material in nature they are quite distinct from jiva whose characteristic is chetana The karmic matter which is achetana in nature while operating, interferes with the pure consciousness of the j'va On account of this interference the various psychic states present in the empirical Self are really the effect of the operative cause of the karmic matter These psychic states constitute the suffering associated with samsara jīva These unpleasant psychic states, as they are the effects of karmic matter, are considered to be material, since the cause and the effect are ultimately identical If these psychic states, since they are produced by karmic matter, are also to be considered material in nature, what is the justification for referring these states of consciousness as the attributes of the jiva? The answer is given in the next gāthā ववहारस्स दरिसणमुवदेसो वण्णिदो जिणवरेहि । जीवा एदे सव्वे अज्झवसाणादओ भावा ॥४६॥ Vavaharassa darīsana muvadeso vannido jinavarehim vā ede savve ajjhavasānādavo bhāvā
व्यवहारस्य दर्शनमुपदेशो वर्णितो जिनवरं । जीवा एते सर्वेऽध्यवसानादयो भावा ॥४६॥
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