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The Sutra-Kritanga Sutra states that if one does not accept the Jain principles, then one object will become all objects. Thus, the concept of momentariness or Kshanabhangavada is not logical. It is illogical to think in that way, therefore, an object or substance is impermanent because it is transient. It is appropriate to believe so.
This soul is a result of transformation. It is the basis of knowledge. It is a transmigrator, going to other births, obtaining a new birth due to its own karma. Therefore, it is different from the past in some way. It exists in conjunction with the body through mutual knowledge. Therefore, it is also inseparable from it, distinct from it. It is also inseparable. This soul is transformed into different forms by the karmas that lead to hell, animal life, human life, and godhood. Therefore, the soul does not deviate from its own nature. Its own nature is never destroyed. Therefore, it is eternal and without cause-and-effect transformation. Thus, even after it is proven that the soul is different from the body, to believe that it is made up of four elements, that it is just the body, is like the ramblings of a madman, which is not worth listening to by a wise man.
Those who believe in other non-Jain philosophies say that those who live in houses, householders, those who live in the forest, forest dwellers or ascetics, those who are renunciates, who have taken renunciation or initiation and become monks, those who accept our principles, are freed from all kinds of suffering.
Commentary: The author of the sutra wants to refute the views of those who believe in the five elements, the non-dual soul, the soul being the same as the body, the six moments, the five aggregates, and the momentary nature of the five aggregates. He wants to show that their views are fruitless. He says:
"A house is a house, those who live in it, those who dwell in it, are householders. Those who live in the forest, ascetics, and renunciates, such as the Buddhists, are also possible. They believe that those who accept our teachings, our philosophy, are freed from all suffering. The singular form in the sutra is used to refer to the aryas, because the view of those who believe in the five elements, the soul, and the body is:
"Just as those who accept our teachings are householders, they are freed from all suffering, such as shaving the head, wearing a staff, a loincloth, matted hair, saffron robes, cutting off hair, fire penance, bodily hardship. And they say: "Penances are various tortures, restraint is deception of enjoyment. Agnihotra and other rituals are like children's play." The Samkhyas and others who believe in liberation believe that those who accept our teachings, which are based on non-action, non-dual soul, and the five aggregates, are renunciates, and they are freed from all suffering, such as birth, old age, death, the cycle of birth and death, and the intense suffering of the body and mind. They attain liberation, which is freedom from all duality."