________________
CHAPTER-IV
union of the body point of view, birth and death take place; treating it as his own birth-death, he believes: "I took birth, I will die".
113
Due to the relationship with the body only, he believes having kinship with other things. He treats them to be his parents who have been instrumental in giving birth to his body, to her who dallys his body amorously accepts as his wife, to him who got birth by his body accepts as his son, to him who is beneficent (helpful) to his body accepts as his friend, to him who harms his body accepts as his foe; such sorts of belief are found in him.
What more to say? He believes himself and the body as one in all respects. Here the names of the senses, etc. have been described but he is totally unaware of all this. Senselessly, he holds I-ness feeling in the embodied form (Paryaya); What is its reason? The same is being explained now:
This Jiva is having sensory knowledge from the beginningless time, due to that reason, "the self who is of non-corporeal (immaterial) form" this is not cognized by him, but 'the body which is of material form' - that only is cognized by him. And it is the nature of the self to definitely possess I-ness feeling by knowing something as to be the self. Hence, so long as the self (soul) is not congized as to be a separate entity till then he possesses I-ness feeling in their combined form of modification (embodied form) only.
There exists an uttermost cause and effect relationship between the self (soul) and the body, that is why the separateness (discrimination) is not cognized and the thought by which the separateness is cognized cannot evolve owing to intense influence of wrong belief. Therefore, I-ness feeling is found in the embodied form (Paryaya) only.
Further, sometimes on association of external things (wealth, etc.), this Jiva treats all these things as his own due to wrong belief. Although son, wife, wealth, grain, elephant, horse, house (palace), servant, etc. appear to the self as distinctly different from the self and always not dependent on the self, even then he (this misbeliever) feels mineness in them.
Sometimes such sort of hallucination about the son, etc. arises that "their existence is my existence". And due to wrong belief, the For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
Jain Education International
