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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Jo jamhı guno davve so annamhi du na sankamadı dauve So annamasankatto kaha tam parinamaye davvam (103)
यो यस्मिन् गुणो द्रव्ये सोऽन्यस्मिस्तु न सक्रामति द्रव्ये ।
सोऽन्यदसक्रान्त कथ तत्परिणामयति द्रव्यम् ॥१०३।। 103 Whatever be the essential quality of a particular substance it cannot be transported to another substance of a different nature Thus being non-transportable, how can the quality of one substance manifest as the quality of another substance ?
COMMENTARY Jaina metaphysics recognises various dravyas or substances each with its own proper gunas or qualities Thus jiva, the Self has its peculiar quality of chetana, and pudgala or matter its own quality achetana The former is conscious and the latter is nonconscious Similarly with the other dravyas Since the quality of a substance is the result of the manifestations of the intrinsic nature of that substance neither the quality nor the substance can be separated from each other Since the dravya and its guna are so inseparably united the guna of one dravya cannot be transferred to another dravya Thus the gunas are non-transferrable, and the dravyas are non-transmutable Thus the chetana dravya, the Self, cannot manifest as achetana dravya or matter Conversely matter cannot manifest as Self
दव्वगुणस्स य आदा ण कुणदि पोग्गलमयम्हि कम्मम्हि ।
त उभयमकुव्वतो तम्हि कह तस्स सो कत्ता ॥१०४॥ Davva gunassa ya āda na kunadı poggalamayamhı kammamhı Tam ubhayamakuvvanto tamhi kaham tassa so katta (104)
द्रव्यगुणस्य च आत्मा न करोति पुद्गलमय कर्मणि ।
तदुभयमकुर्वस्तस्मिन्क तस्य स कर्ता ॥१०४॥ 104 The Self does not influence the substance or the attributes of karma which are of material nature Thus being incapable of influencing these two (aspects) of karmas, how can he be their upādāna karta (substantive causal agent)
COMMENTARY
The clay out of which a pot is made has its distinct quality