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Even though it has a being in all the states of the five astikayas, it is also non-existent due to the absence of the relation of another astikaya by the relation of another astikaya. ||19||
Sanskrit Tatparya Vritti Gatha-19
Thus, it is certain that from the perspective of the dravya-arthicnaya, there is no destruction of the sat and no production of the asat.
Thus, even though from the perspective of the paryayarthicnaya, production and destruction occur in the form of humans, narakas, etc., from the perspective of the dravya-arthicnaya, there is no destruction of the existing sat and no production of the asat, which is the absence of knowledge. Of what? Of the being, the jiva-padartha.
Now, if it is not to be produced, then how does the explanation that it exists in the bhogabhumi for the duration of three palyas and then dies, or that it exists in the deva-loka and naraka-loka for the duration of thirty-three sagaras and then dies, etc., hold true?
The amount that is said of the jivas, such as deva, manushya, etc., is the paryay, which is caused by the karma-udaya, which is called the गतिनामक. It is not the amount of the dravya itself, so there is no contradiction like the bamboo stick.
Just as a large bamboo stick has many joints that exist in their own places and are present, and are absent in the places of other joints, and the bamboo stick itself, though present in all the joints, is said to be absent in the second joint in the form of the first joint, so also the jiva, which is in the place of the bamboo stick, has many paryayas in the form of human, naraka, etc., which are present in their own time of karma-udaya and are absent in the time of other paryayas, and the jiva itself, though present in all the paryayas in all the joints, is said to be absent in the deva-adi paryayas in the form of the manushya-adi paryayas.
If it is asked how the same thing can be both eternal and non-eternal, then the answer is: Just as in the case of a certain Devadatta, the desire for a son is secondary when there is a desire for a father, and the desire for a father is secondary when there is a desire for a son, so also in the case of a certain jiva, or the jiva-dravya, from the perspective of the dravya-arthicnaya, the non-eternality in the form of the paryay is secondary when there is a desire for eternality, and the eternality in the form of the dravya is secondary when there is a desire for non-eternality in the form of the paryay. Why? Because the desired is the primary.
Here, even though there is non-eternality in the form of the paryay, from the perspective of the pure dravya-arthicnaya, the pure jiva-astikaya, which is imperishable and infinite knowledge, etc., is the pure atma-dravya, which is to be contemplated as the object of attainment by the removal of raga, etc. ||19||
Thus, in the first place, a single-verse gatha was spoken earlier to refute the Buddhist view, and in the second place, four gathas were spoken to explain it.
Hindi Tatparya Vritti Gatha-19
Uththānikā - Further, we assert that from the perspective of the dravya-arthicnaya, there is no destruction of the sat and no production of the asat. This is the established truth.
Anvaya Sahit Samanyarth - (evam) In this way, as we have said before, (sado jivas) the sat substance, the jiva, (vinas) does not perish, and (asado) the asat substance, the jiva, (uppado) does not come into existence. (jivaan) The worldly jivas (tavadio) are in such a state, which (devo manusoti gadinaamo) is the result of their karma-udaya, which is called the deva or manushya-gati.