Agam 45 Chulika 02 Anuyogdwar Sutra

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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ANUOGADDARAIM
[ SUTTAS 95 The serial as
Then what is the serial as substance-potential ? substance-potential is stated to be twofold, viz. i) with scriptural knowledge, and (ii) without scriptural knowledge.
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Then what is the serial as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge? The serial as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge, is concerned with a person by whom the treatise (dealing with) 'serial' has been studied (from beginning to end), retained (in mind), controlled, measured, controlled perfectly...(as described in sutta No. 14), and not no account of his thinking (of the meaning of the treatise). Why is it so ? Because davva stands for the absence of attention.
(Now the issue is considered through the nayas or standpoints.) According to (the standpoint of) negama, a person without attention (or active thinking of serial) is one serial as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge... (as described in sutta No. 15). (According to the standpoints of the three saddanayas), a knower without attention is unreal. Why is it so ? Because if a person is knower, he cannot be without attention. Again, if he is without attention, he cannot be the knower. Therefore there cannot be the serial as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge.
substance-potential, with scriptural
Then what is the serial as substance potential, without scriptural knowledge? The serial as substance-potential, without scriptural
knowledge, is stated to be threefold, viz.
This is the serial as
knowledge.
(i) the serial as substance-potential (namely) body of the knower,
(ii) the serial as substance-potential (namely) body of the competent person,
(iii) the serial as substance-potential, other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person.
Then what is the serial as substance-potential (namely) body of the knower ? (The serial as substance-potential (namely) body of the knower is) such a body of the knower who knows the purview of the meaning of the treatise 'anupuvvi'-the body which is devoid (of consciousness and has reached the state of unconsciousness), has seceded from breath), has been made separate (from breath), and has left nourishment; the rest is to be spoken of as in the case of Avassaya as substance-potential (in sutta No 17),...This is the serial as substancepotential (namely) the body of the knower.