Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

Author(s): S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai

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INSTALLATION
attending to, the scriptures dealing with the soul or the human soul is agama dravya jiva. No agama dravya jiva is of three kinds-the body of the knower, potential and distinct from these two. The body of the knower is that, which accompanies the knower through the past, the present and the future. From the general point of view, there is no no agama bhāvi jiva, as the general life principle is present in all souls or living beings. But it exists from particular points of view. The soul inhabiting some other state of existence and tending to take birth as a human being is a human potential soul. Karma and quasi-karma1 kinds are distinct from these two Bhava jiva is of two kinds, agama bhāva jiva and no agama bhava jiva. The soul well-versed in scriptures dealing with souls or human souls and attending to them is agama bhāva jiva. The soul taking the mode of a living being or the mode of a human being is no agama bhava jiva. The rule relating to the installation of substances such as the non-soul must be imagined in the same way. Of what use is this? It is intended to establish what is desirable and refute what is irrelevant or unsuitable. By this sutra the terms 'name' etc. have been explained. Now what is the purport of the word 'that' (tad)? It is intended to include both, namely right faith etc. and the soul etc. Without the word
that this rule would apply only to the primary ones, right faith, right knowledge and right conduct, and not to the secondary ones, the soul, the non-soul, etc. But by the use of the word that', both the primary and the secondary ones are included.
What is the way of ascertaining the seven categories elaborated through the four kinds of installation?
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प्रमाणनयैरधिगमः
Pramananayairadhigamaḥ
6. Knowledge (of the seven categories) is attained by 1 Karma is well-known. The taking in of matter fit for the three kinds of bodies and the six kinds of completion is quasi-karma.
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॥ ૬ ॥ (6)