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SAMAYASĀRA
COMMENTARY . It is a well-known fact in our experience that visual perception and the perceived object are not causally related to each other. Hence we cannot say that the act of perception produces the object perceived. Hence the relation of perception to perceived object is such that the perceived object is uninfluenced by the act of perception. If the two are causally related to each other then the perceiving agent, say in the case of fire perceived, must himself be combustible and burst into flame in order to produce the flame perceived and similarly he must feel the heat of it in his own body. No such thing happens in the perceiving agent. This visual perception merely is aware of the object without in any way producing it. The behaviour of knowledge is said to be identical with that of the visual perception. The relation between knowledge and the object known is exactly identical. Knowledge is not in any way causally related to the objects known. Knowledge therefore cannot be said to produce the objects known. Hence jñāna is said to be akāraka not a causal agent and also avedaka, non-enjoyer in relation to bandha (bondage), mokṣa (release), etc. which as objects of knowledge are merely known and not produced.
Those who see in the ātmā a creator, like ordinary people, are not sages desiring emancipation.
लोयस्स कुणइ विण्ह सुरणारयतिरियमाणुसे सत्ते। समणाणंपि य अप्पा जइ कव्वइ छविहे काए ॥३२१॥ - loyassa kuņai viņhū suraņārayatiriyamāņuse salte samaņāņampi ya appā jai kuvvai chavvihe kāe (321) लोकस्य करोति विष्णुः सुरनारकतिर्यङ्मानुषान् सत्त्वान । श्रमणानामपि च आत्मा यदि करोति षड्विधान् कायान् ॥३२१॥ . लोयसमणाण मेवं सिद्धतं पडि ण दीसइ विसेसो। लोयस्स कुणइ विण्हू समणाणं पि अप्पओ कणइ ॥३२२॥ loyasamaņāņa mevaṁ siddhastaṁ padi na dîsai viseso loyassa kuņai viņhū samaņāņai pi appao kunai (322) लोकश्रमणानामेवं सिद्धान्तं प्रति न दृश्यते विशेषः । लोकस्य करोति विष्णुः श्रमणानामप्यात्मा करोति ॥३२२॥
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