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dance of Prakrti, while other systems believe the bondage to be that of the soul. But this is a matter of interpretation, and the concept of bondage and liberation is acceptable to it also.
(1804) Sa eşa vigunah ... ... This statement cannot be traced, but it has a Sārkhya tinge. Compare — karmādhyakṣaḥ sarvabhūtādhivă sah sākşi cetā kevalo nirguņaś ca-Svet. Up. 6.11.
(1821-1822) This division of the souls into bhavya -- those that are capable of being liberated, and abha vya- those that are not — is one for which no thoroughly rational explanation has been given. Acārya Siddhasena recognises it as something that is to be accepted on faith or on the authority of the scriptures.
(1827) If all the bhavya souls are emancipated, there would be an end to all sainsara, mundane existence. Will such a situation ever arise? The Jainas say it will not, as explained in the body of the text. The same problem is attempted to be tackled in the Yogabhāşya, where it is said that this cannot be answered but one thing is certain that the kušala (good, pure) are emancipated, not so the akušala (impure); but it is not possible to say anything of the world as a whole. There is quotation in the Bhāsvati commentary of the Yogabháşya saying that there will never be an end to all mundane existence, as at the present. —'Idānim iva sarvatra nātyantocchedaḥ. Bhāsvati also quotes “Pūrṇasya pūrņam ādāya pūrņam evāvašisyate' of the Upanişads and also,
'Ata eya hi vidvatsu iucyamăneșu sarvadā;
brahmāndajivalokānām anantatvād aśūnyata' - to the same effect. See Yogabhāsya. 4.33.
(1839) Is mokṣa (emancipation) křtaka (caused or brought about)? We may note briefly the views of different darśanas in connection with this problem. The Buddhists regard everything as made, as composite (krtaka), except nirvana and äkāśa (space). In the Milindapañha, it is recorded that King Milinda once asked Nāgasena if there was anything that was not caused by action (karma) or cause (hetu) or season (rtu). Nāgasena replied that there were two things--akāśa and nirvana that complied
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