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Kundakunda: The Samayasāra 249 - [for him) the essence of self is evident. Therefore, even he who, going beyond the one-sided view that karma is bound to the jiva, conceives that karma is not bound to the jiva does not go beyond views. And even he who, going beyond the one-sided view that karma is not bound to the jiva, conceives that karma is bound to the jīva does not go beyond views. And again, even he who, going beyond these two views, conceives that karma is both bound and not bound to the jiva does not go beyond views. Therefore, he who thus goes beyond the combined view, he alone indeed goes beyond choice. He who thus goes beyond all conceptualization, he indeed finds the essence of self. If that is the case, then who indeed would not activate the view-renouncing state of mind (bhāva)?' [142]33
This is strikingly similar to Mādhyamika Buddhism's denial of the ability of doctrines or views to characterize reality. For the Mādhyamika, according to one modern commentator, 'the real as transcendent to thought can be realised only by the denial of the determinations which systems of philosophy ascribe to it'. 34 In other words,
33 jivapudgalakarmanor ekabandhaparyāyatvena tadativyatirekābhāvāj jive baddhāsprstam karmeti vyavahāranayapakṣaḥ| jīvapudgalakarmanor anekadravyatvenātyantavyatirekāj jive 'baddhasprstam karmeti niscayapakṣaḥ|(141) | yaḥ kila jīve baddham karmeti yaś ca jīve 'baddham karmeti vikalpaḥ sa dvitayāpi hi nayapakṣaḥ| ya evainam atikrāmati sa eva sakalavikalpātikrāntaḥ svayam nirvikalpaikavijñānaghanasvabhāvo bhūtvā sākṣātsamayasāraḥ sambhavati tatra yas tāvaj jīve baddhakarmeti vikalpayati sa jive 'baddham karmeti ekam pakşam atikrāmann api na vikalpam atikrāmati yas tu jive 'baddham karmeti vikalpayati jive baddham karmetyekam pakşam atikrāmann api na vikalpam atikrāmati yah punar jive baddham abaddham ca karmeti vikalpayati sa tu tam dvityam api paksam anatikrāman na vikalpam atikrāmati tato ya eva samastanayapakşam atikrāmati sa eva samastam vikaipam atikrāmati ya eva samastam vikalpam atikrāmati sa eva samayasāram vindati | yady evam tarhi ko hi nāma paksasamnyāsabhāvanām na nātayati (142) | - Atmakhyāti on Samayasāra 141 and 142 (= 151 and 152 JGM)
34 Puligandla p. 289, fn. 100.
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