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SAMAYASARA.
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तह्मा ण कोवि जीवो उवघादगो अस्थि तुह्म उवदेसे । जह्मा कम्मं चेत्रहि कम्नं घादि जं भणियं ॥ ३६५॥ तस्मान्न कोऽपि जीव उपधातको युष्माकमुपदेशे । यस्मात्कमैव हि कर्म हन्तीति भणितम् ॥ ३६५ ॥
365. Then no soul whatsoever is the killer, according to thy teaching, because the material Karma itself, as said above, destroys the material Karma.
Commentary.
If the one-sided view that only Karmic matter destroys other Karmic matter, be propounded, then no soul will be responsible for the sin of causing injury to any other being, All souls will be nonkillers and non-killed. The doctrine of non-injury will become nugatory.
एवं संखुवदेसं जेदु परुरिति एरिसं समणा । तेसिं पयडी कुठादि अप्पा य अकारया सव्वे ॥ ३६६ ॥ एवं सांख्योपदेशं ये तु प्ररूपयन्तीदृशं श्रमणाः । तेषां प्रकृतिः करोत्यात्मानश्चाकारकाः सर्वे ॥ ३६६ ॥
366. Thus if any Jain ascetics propounded, like this the Sankhya teaching, (then) according to them, the material Karma only is active, and all the souls are non-active.
Commentary.
In the Jaina scriptures all propositions are stated from two standpoints, real and practical. If only one of them is followed, the truth will not come out. Real point of view in Jainism says that all souls are pure, and do not cause any impurity, or any sin, or bondage or Liberation : but at the same time from a practical point of view all mundane souls are bound up with Karmic dirt and modified into their impure thought activities by the operation of Karmas. This view makes the soul responsible for its deed of injury, unchastity, etc.
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