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SAMAYASARA.
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लोगसमणाणमेवं सिद्धंतं पडि ण दिस्तदि विसेसो। लोगस्स कुणदि विण्हू समणाणं अप्पओ कुणदि ॥३४३॥ लोकश्रमणानामेवं सिद्धांतं प्रति न दृश्यते विशेषः । लोकस्य करोति विष्णुः श्रमणानामप्यात्मा करोति ॥ ३४३ ॥ एवं ण कोवि मुक्खो दीसइ दुराहंपि समण लोयाणं । णिचं कुव्वंताणं सदेव मणुासुरे लोगे ॥ ३४४ ॥ एवं न कोऽपि मोक्षो दृश्यते लोकश्रमणानां द्वयेषाम् । नित्यं कुर्वतां सदैवमनुजासुरसहिते लोके ॥ ३४४ ॥
342-344. In the opinion of some people Vishnu creates celestial, hellish, sub-human and human beings ; if in the (opinion of) Shramanas (Jaina ascetics), also, the soul produces the 6 kinds of bodies (earth, air, fire, water, vegetable, and mobile) ; then there seems to be no distinction between those people and Shramanas. For the people, Vishnu creates, and for the Shramanas the soul creates. Thus there seems no Liberation whatsoever for any of the two, the Shramanas and the people, ever creating in this world men and celestials.
Commentary.
Even saints who consider the soul to be the doer of Karmas and their enjoyer, from real point of view, are perverse believers like the people, who believe that God, a personal supreme being creates mundane souls, and make them act as he desires. A God who indulges in such activities cannot be free from Karmic bondage To the right believer the pure Soul is God, quite pure and absorbed in its own nature of pure consciousness and bliss and does not create even in himself any foreign thought-activity whatsoever.
ववहारभासिदेण दु परदव्वं मम भणंति विदिदत्था। जाणति णिच्छयेण दुणय इह परमाणुमित्त मम किंचि ॥३४॥
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