________________ Pancastikaya-samgraha The soul (jiva), from the point-of-view of the substance - dravyarthika naya - is established in its own-nature (svabhava) [of perfect knowledge (jnana) and perception (darsana)]. If it exhibits qualities (guna) and modes (paryaya) that are not in tune with its own-nature (svabhava), it is 'parasamaya'- conduct (caritra) based on the other. If the same soul turns to 'svasamaya' - conduct (caritra) based on the soul itself - it gets freed from the karmic bondage. EXPLANATORY NOTE In this verse, the path to liberation has been shown as freeing the soul from the karmic bondage by adopting conduct (caritra) based on the own-nature (svabhava) of the soul - svasamaya. To get to this stage, conduct (caritra) based on the other - parasamaya - has to be discarded. The worldly soul (jiva), from the point-of-view of the substance - dravyarthika naya - is established in its own-nature (svabhava) of perfect knowledge (jnana) and perception (darsana). However, due to beginningless rise of the deluding (mohaniya) karmas it undergoes transformations; its cognition (upayoga) turns into impure-cognition (asuddhopayoga). It adopts conduct (caritra) based on the other - parasamaya - and lives with unnatural (vibhava) qualities (guna), like the sensory-knowledge (matijnana), and modes (paryaya), like the human-being (manusya) and the infernal-being (naraka). When the same soul (iva) gets rid of transformations due to the deluding (mohaniya) karmas, its cognition (upayoga) turns into pure-cognition (suddhopayoga). It then adopts conduct (caritra) based on the own-nature (svabhava) of the soul-svasamaya or svacaritra. Thus, when the soul (jiva), on getting the light of right-knowledge (samyagjnana), discards conduct (caritra) based on the other - parasamaya - and adopts conduct (caritra) based on the own-nature (svabhava) of the soul - svasamaya or svacaritra - it certainly gets 296
