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शुद्धभावाधिकार
3 - THE PURE THOUGHT-ACTIVITY शुद्ध आत्मा स्वद्रव्य है, अतः उपादेय है - The pure soul is own-substance; it is to be accepted -
पुव्वुत्तसयलभावा परदव्वं परसहावमिदि हेयं । सगदव्वमुवादेयं अंतरतच्चं हवे अप्पा ॥५०॥
वास्तव में ये सब (पूर्वोक्त) भाव परद्रव्य (परस्वभाव) हैं, इसलिये हेय (915 12); it 37-lid rohu (Taura69) 341HT1agona, अतः उपादेय (ग्रहण करने योग्य) है।
In reality, the aforementioned dispositions (bhāva) in the soul are other-substance (paradravya); these must be rejected. The soul's own-nature (svabhāva) is its ownsubstance (svadravya); this must be accepted.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
With the faculty-of-discrimination (bhedavijñāna), the ascetic ascertains that the soul (jīva) is utterly distinct from all othersubstances (paradravya). He also ascertains that in its pure state, the soul (jīva) is non-distinct from the doer (kartā), the instrument (karaṇa), the activity (karma) and the fruit-of-karma (karmaphala). He does not transform the soul (jīva) into impure state of union with other-substances (paradravya). Only such a soul (jīva) attains its pure nature of knowledge - as the jñāyaka. He contemplates in the following manner. As the pure crystal gets the red taint due to its association with the red flower, I too, due to my ignorance, have tainted myself, since infinite time past, with karmic dirt; that is certainly not my nature. In that contaminated state, surely, I was alone. I became the ignorant doer (kartā) of my impure state due to my own disposition sullied by attachment (rāga). I became the instrument (karaṇa) of my impure state by succumbing to attachment. Due to my
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