Atma Siddhi

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, J L Jaini
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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ATMA-SIDDHI
देहमात्र तुं संयोगी दृश्यं रूपी जडं धनम् । जीवोत्पत्ति-लयावत्र नीतौ केनाऽनुभूतिताम् ? ॥ ६२ ॥
The body is merely a concourse of atoms, lifeless, with form (i. e., material) visible. (Then) upon whose experience (or observation) do the generation and destruction of consciousness depend?
Commentary.-How and who knows that consciousness is generated or destroyed by the body? i.e., it is this knower who is the soul. 63
जेना अनुभव वश्य ए, उत्पन्न, लयनुं ज्ञान । ते तेथी जूदाविना, थाय न केमे भान ॥ ६३ ॥ उत्पत्ति-लयबोधौ तु यस्यानुभववर्तिनौ । स ततो भिन्न एव स्यान्नान्यथा बोधनं तयोः ॥ ६३ ॥
Upon whom the experience or the observation of the rise and the destruction (of the body) depends? Without maintaining the separation of that (soul from the body) there can be no knowledge by any means (whatsoever).
Commentary. Suppose that the soul is born and dies with the body. Then who knows that the body is dead or the soul is being born out of it?