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356. Or if the soul and Prakriti (Karmic matter) cause matter-substance to be wrong belief, then being produced by the two, both of them will bear the fruit of it.
Commentary.
The proposition that soul and Karmic matter combined cause matter-substance to turn into wrong belief, is also untenable. The reason is that matter by its very nature of inertness is incapable of suffering any consequence, sinful or meritorious.
अह ण पयड़ी ण जीवा पोग्गलदव्वं करेदि मिच्छत्तं । तह्मा पोग्गल दवं मिच्छत्तं तंतु बहु मिच्छा ॥ ३५७ ॥ अथ न प्रकृतिनं च जीवः पुद्गलद्रव्यं करोति मिथ्यात्वम् । तस्मात्पुद्गलद्रव्यं मिथ्यात्वं तत्तु न खलु मिथ्या ॥ ३५७ ॥
367. Neither Prakriti (Matter) nor soul causes the material substance to be wrong belief. Is it not certainly wrong that material substance is wrong belief?
Commentary.
Again, if one propounds the theory that neither soul nor Karma makes a matter substance to be modified into wrong belief, his previous proposition that matter alone is wrong belief is refuted.
Wrong belief here means the thought-activity which is the auxiliary cause of Karmic matter being bound with the soul. From the point of view of the soul, the primary cause of wrong belief is the soul itself, i.e., its thought activity and the auxiliary cause is matter. But from the material point of view, the bondage which we call wrong belief is primarily matter and the soul's thought activity is only its auxiliary cause.
कम्महिंदु अण्णाणी किज्जदिणाणी तहेव कम्मेहिं। कम्मेहिं सुवाविज्जदि जम्गाविज्जदि तहेव कम्मेहि ॥३५८॥ कर्मभिस्तु अज्ञानी क्रियते ज्ञानी तथैव कर्मभिः । कर्मभिः स्वाप्यते जागयते तथैव कर्मभिः ॥ ३५८ ॥
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