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CHAPTER XVI ACTIVITY OF SOUL
Activity of a soul, which depends upon mind, speech and body is technically called yoga. In this chapter the term 'pray used in place of 'yoga'. This threefold activity is considered to be of the soul (ätmavyāpāra)' because it does not take place in its absence. According to Jaina philosophy mind, speech and body are material or physical. The activity that is commonly found in all forms of matter is motion. This activity is possible even in the absence of the soul. But the special activities of physical particles transformed into mind, speech and body are possible only when the soul cooperates with this concerned matterAgain, these special activities in question are not possible in matter which is not transformed into mind, speech and body. And even the transformation of matter into mind, speech and body depends on the karma of the soul. This is the reason why this threefold activity of material mind, speech and body is regarded as belonging to the soul. These three types of activity are divided into 15 sub-types. We are told as to which of these sub-types can possibly be present in a living being in a particular situation. We are also informed as to which of these 15 sub-types can possibly be present in each of the 24 classes (dandaka) of living beings (1069-1084). In this exposition there also occur various alternatives showing as to which sub-types are possible along with a particular sub-type.
Like Prajñåpanā, Şaţkhandäga ma also enumerates the 15 subtypes of threefold activity and examines the possibility of these sub-types in different classes of living beings, employing the scheme of märganästhånas of living beings (Book I p. 278 ff.). In Satkhandagama three main types of activity, viz. mental, vocal and bodily are included under the head 'Prayoga Karma', but their sub-types are mentioned in Dhavala (Book XIII, p. 43).
The 15 sub-types are as follows (1068) : (1) Satya-manah-prayoga (True activity of mind). (2) Asatya-manah-prayoya (False activity of mind).
1. "prayogah parispandakriyā, ātmavyāpāra ity arthaḥ ” Prajñāpanātikā, folio
317. "atmapravstteḥ karmādānanibandhanavīryotpado yogah athavā ātmapradeśānām sankocavikoco yogah" Dhavala, I, p. 140. Among the ten types of karma enumerated in Acaranganiryukti (gāthă 183) there is one called 'prayoga-karma'. While explaining it Ac. Silanka enumerates its 15 types (p. 94).
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