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जीवाधिकार
1 - THE SOUL
Ācārya Kundakunda’s Pravacanasāra: अत्थित्तणिच्छिदस्स हि अत्थस्सत्यंतरम्मि संभूदो । अत्थो पज्जायो सो संठाणादिप्पभेदेहिं ॥२-६०॥
अपने सहज-स्वभावरूप स्वरूप के अस्तित्वकर निश्चल जो जीव-पदार्थ है उसके निश्चय से जो अन्य-पदार्थ - पुद्गल-द्रव्य के संयोग से - उत्पन्न हुआ जो अनेक द्रव्य-स्वरूप पदार्थ है वह संयोग-जनित भाव संस्थान-संहननादि के भेदों से युक्त नर-नारक आदि विभाव (विकार) पर्याय हैं।
The substance of soul (īva) exists in own immutable nature; however, due to union with other substances – matter (pudgala) - it gets transformed into unnatural-modes (vibhāva-paryaya) with particularities of bodily structure (samsthāna), joints (samhanana), etc.
Due to union with the physical matter (pudgala), the soul (jīva) is transformed into its unnatural-modes (vibhāva-paryāya), like the infernal being. These modes (paryaya) are externally-dependent (svaparāpeksa) and appertain to the soul (jīva) that is in its unnatural state; these are utterly perishable, and worth discarding. The soul (jīva), when rid of union with the physical matter (pudgala), has the self-illuminating, eternal and immutable mode (paryāya) that is independent (nirapeksa) of all external influence; this is its naturalmode (svabhāva-paryāya). The natural-mode (svabhāva-paryāya) of the soul (jīva) is characterized by infinite knowledge and perception and is worth accepting.
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