Istopadesa The Golden Discourse

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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Verse 8
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सव्वण्हुणाणदिट्ठो जीवो उवओगलक्खणो णिच्चं । किह सो पोंग्गलदव्वीभूदो जं भणसि मज्झमिणं ॥ जदि सो पोंग्गलदव्वीभूदो जीवत्तमागदं इदरं । तो सक्का वोत्तु जे मज्झमिणं पोंग्गलं दव्वं ॥
(1-25-25)
The Self, deluded with wrong knowledge and influenced by wrong belief and passions, declares that physical objects like the ones intimately bound to him (the body) and the ones not so bound to him (the wife, the son), belong to him. The Omniscient Lord has declared that consciousness is soul's distinctive characteristic. How can such an entity be regarded as physical matter? How can one say that a particular physical matter belongs to him? If it were possible for the soul to become a physical matter and for the physical matter to become a soul (having consciousness), then only it would have been right to say that a particular physical object belongs to the soul. Jain, Vijay K. (2012), “Achārya Kundkund's Samayasāra”,
Vikalp Printers, p. 14-15.
A deluded person breeds attachment to the body which is intimately bound to him, and with persons or objects like friends, clothes, houses, riches and geographical territories, which are not so bound to him. He desires their possession, ownership and company, and their separation brings about grief to him. He spends his whole life in acquiring and then protecting them, and their inevitable separation causes unbearable misery to him.
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