Jinamanjari 1998 09 No 18

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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VĀBh 2270ab:
kattā jivo kammassa karaṇato jadha ghadassa ghaďakāro / (kartā jivaḥ karmaṇaḥ karaṇato yathā ghaťasya ghațakāraḥ /]
<Thesis> Jiva is the producer (karty) of karman. <Reason> Because it has the means (karaṇa). <Example> As a potter [is the producer) of the pot.
Because jiva has the necessary means to produce karman, jiva is the producer of both karman and the body. In producing karman, the body serves as the means.
Transmigration: Jiva and the Body As mentioned above, the Jivasiddhi-section of the Ganadharavādachapter establishes that jiva is the producer of the body. This is shown directly in the Bandhamokşa-section, the sixth in the chapter, with the following demonstration:
VĀBh 2270cd:
evam ciya dehassa vi kammakaranasambhavāto tti // sevam eva dehasyāpi karmakaranasambhavād iti //]
<Thesis> (jiva is) also (the producer of the body. <Reason> because it has karman as the (necessary) means.
Thus, jiva is proved to be the producer of the body because of its possession of karman as the necessary means, so that, as a conclusion, jiva produces the body with karman as the necessary means and produces karman with the body.
Transmigration: Karman and the Body As mentioned above, for jiva as a producer, the body and karman are both means and result, so that these two entities have a relationship of cause and result, just as a seed and a sprout, or a hen and an egg.
VĀBh 2268 (Bandhamokṣasiddhi):
samtāņo ņātio paropparum hatuphalabhāvāto / dehassa ya kammassa ya mandiya bīyamkurāņam va // (samtāno nādikaḥ prasparam hetuphalabhāvāt / dehasya ca karmaņas ca mandika bijankurayor iva II
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