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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
शुद्ध द्रव्यार्थिक नय से संसारी व मुक्त जीवों में अभेद - From the real point-of-view, there is no difference between the transmigrating soul and the liberated soul – जारिसिया सिद्धप्पा भवमल्लिय जीव तारिसा होति । जरमरणजम्ममुक्का अट्ठगुणालंकिया जेण ॥४७॥
जैसे सिद्धात्मा हैं वैसे ही भवलीन (संसारी) जीव हैं, (क्योंकि स्वभावदृष्टि से) वे संसारी जीव भी जरा, मरण और जन्म से रहित तथा (सम्यक्त्वादि) आठ गुणों से अलंकृत हैं।
The transmigrating souls - samsāri.jiva – (from the pure, transcendental point-of-view) are same as the liberated souls – siddhātmā – as they too are free from old-age (jarā), death (marana) and birth (janma), and endowed with eight supreme qualities (guna).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The worthy ascetic (muni, śramaņa), equipped with the light of right discrimination, who has ascertained the nature of substances as these are, and whose conduct is based primarily on getting established in own soul-nature, sheds all his previously bound karmas and keeps new karmas at bay; he thus gets free from the ignominy of worldly births. Such a supreme ascetic who is established in pure soul-nature and free from rebirth in another mode (paryāya) is the reality of liberation - moksatattva. The soul (jiva), which is free from external-substances (paradravya) and established in own-nature (svarūpa), is the liberated soul (the Siddha).1
1 - Ācārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra – Essence of the Doctrine, p. 331.
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