Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

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

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MOBILE AND IMMOBILE BEINGS
11. (The two kinds of transmigrating souls are those) with and without minds.
The mind is of two kinds, physical and psychical (dravya and bhāva). The physical mind is originated by the rise of karmas of limbs and minor limbs, which bring about change in matter. The purity of the soul arising on the destruction-cum-subsidence of energy-obstructive and quasi-sense-covering karmas is the psychic mind. Those endowed with minds are samanaskas", and those not endowed with ininds are amanaskas?. Thus the living beings are divided into two classes, those with minds and those without minds. Samanaskāḥ and amanaskāh make up samanaskāmanaskah. Those endowed with minds are mentioned first, as they are worthy. How are they worthy? They are worthy, as they are endowed with the power of discriminating between good and evil.
The transmigrating beings are classified in another way.
संसारिणत्रसस्थावराः
Samsärinastrasasthāvarāh . (12) 12. The transmigrating souls are (of two kinds), the mobile and the immobile beings.
The term 'the transmigrating souls' is unnecessary, as these have been mentioned already. Where? In the sutra, “The transmigrating and the liberated souls'. It is not unnecessary. It refers to the previous sutra. Those that are described as with and without minds are transmigrating souls. Without such a qualifying attribute, it would be taken respectively. That is, the mundane souls are with minds and the liberated souls are without minds. Hence the use of the word samsāriņa) is proper, It refers both to the previous sutra and this one also. The mundane souls are of two kinds, the mobile and the immobile. Those who are subject to trasa name karma are trasas, and those who are governed by sthāvara name karma are sthāvaras. It is untenable to say that those who move are trasas and those who are stationary are sthāvaras. For
1 samanaskas: rational beings, i, e. beings endowed with the faculty of reasoning.
? amanaskas: irrational beings, i.e. beings pot capable of reasoning.