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**Self-Time Statement of Authority**
**Passage:** "O Blessed One! Have you heard the wise say, 'Drink and eat, O handsome one! What has passed, O beautiful form, is not yours. Do not fear! What has passed does not return. This body is merely a collection.' Thus, those who are internally influenced by the meaning of self-time, having crossed over the meaning of the scriptures, which is the true meaning of the scriptures, are attached to their own scriptures and to desires."
**Commentary:** The first study in the commentary includes the exposition of self-time - Jain principles, followed by the exposition of other-time - non-Jain principles. Therefore, after stating his own principles, the author of the scripture says:
Many men abandon the principles that have been discussed before and remain attached to scriptures created according to their own liking. The word "Aae-Eke" used in this verse means that not all are like this, some are. The intention of accepting the principles of the scriptures composed by them is that they transgress the aforementioned scriptures - Jain scriptures. The aforementioned scriptures have expounded the meaning - the implication that beings have their own independent existence, there is karma-bondage of knowledge-obscuration, etc., false belief, non-restraint, carelessness, attachment, beginning, etc., are the causes of their karma-bondage. This bondage breaks through the means of right faith, etc. As a result, liberation is attained. Some Shakyas - Buddhists, Shramanas, and Brahmanas following the principles of Brihaspati, etc., transgress - violate all the aforementioned principles spoken by the Tirthankaras, not knowing the ultimate truth - the ultimate reality or truth, and remain stubbornly attached to their own principles in many ways. The Shakyas expound:
There is no independent entity called the soul as the basis of happiness, sorrow, desire, aversion, and knowledge, but only a manifestation of knowledge manifests in various forms. All karmic formations - substances are momentary, fleeting.
Those who believe in the Sankhya philosophy explain their substances or elements in this way:
The state of equilibrium - equal state of sattva guna, rajo guna, and tamo guna is called nature. From nature, the great - intellect element arises. From intellect, ego arises. From ego, the group of sixteen elements arises. From that, the five great elements arise. The nature of the element called purusha or soul is consciousness or awareness.
Those who believe in the Vaisheshika philosophy explain:
Substance, quality, action, generality, particularity, and inherence are the six substances.
The Nyaya philosophers expound:
Liberation is attained through the knowledge of:
1. Anvaya - that which is present when something else is present.
2. Vyatireka - that which is absent when something else is absent.
The Mimamsakas say:
The protection of dharma is inspiration. Inspiration means Vedic sentences that reveal unknown meaning. Through it, the meaning of dharma, etc., is understood. There is no man called omniscient. That is, no one is omniscient. There is no existence - reality of liberation.
Anvaya is that which is present when something else is present. Vyatireka is that which is absent when something else is absent.