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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
7. Is this a string or serpent. 8. I wish to be such. 9. Sound which can't be reduced to letters.
Sounds altered by souls2 sensed to irrational 5-sensed are letterless. So is the speech of an omniscient vibrating souls. It proceeds without volition from the Saint, but is understood by the audience as true, and authoritative.
मणवयणाणं मूलणिमित्तं खलु पुण्णदेहउदओ दु। मोसुभयाणं मूलणिमित्तं खलु होदि आवरणं ॥ २२७॥ मनोवचनयोर्मूलनिमित्तं खलु पूर्णदेहोदयस्तु । मृषोभययोर्मूलमिमित्तं खलु भवत्यावरणम् ॥ २२७ ।।
227. The root cause of (true and neutral) (mind and speech verily) is the operation of developable and bodymaking Karmas. And the root cause of false and
mixed (mind and speech) is the obscuring (i.e., knowledge obscuring Karma).
Commentary. When one speaks or thinks of the truth, or what is neutral, neither true-nor-false, he exercise no special effort, and the speech or thought is the result of the operation of developable, and bodymaking Karmas.
But when one speaks or thinks what is false, or both true and false, it is intentional and is due to the operation of knowledge-obscuring Karma.
In all mind and speech vibrations the operation of developable and the body-making Karmas is invariably present. But in the above statement ; the predominant cause is referred to as the root-cause.
मणसहियाणं वयणं दिहं तप्पुव्वमिदि सजोगम्हि । उत्तो मणोवयारेणिदियणाणेण हीणम्हि ॥ २२८॥ मनःसहितानां वचनं दृष्टं तत्पूर्वमिति सयोगे । उक्तो मनउपचारेणेन्द्रियज्ञानेन हीने ॥ २२८ ॥
228. In the rational beings, speech is seen to be preceded by mind (activity). But as regards a vibrating omniscient soul, (who is) above sensitive knowledge mind has been attributed by assumption
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