Samayasara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
जदि सो पुग्गलदव्वी भूदो जीवत्तमागदं इदरं । तो सक्का वुत्तुं जे मज्झमि पुग्गलं दव्वं ॥ ३० ॥ यदि स पुद्गलद्रव्यीभूतो जीवत्वमागतमितरत् । तच्छुतो वक्तुं यन्ममेदं पुद्गलं द्रव्यं ॥ ३० ॥
30. If that (soul) becomes matter-substance, the other (i.e., matter) will gain soulness. Then ( you ) can say that this matter-substance ( is) mine.
Commentary.
There is a total absence of matter in pure soul. But the impure mundane-soul has always got connection with electric and Karmic bodies. Still even a duration of infinite time cannot change one substance into another. It is a rule that a substance can never lose its own real nature by being altered into another substance. It can modify within its own possible conditions, retaining all its natures and attributes of which the substance is an indivisible group. It may, however, modify itself into many kinds of worldly lives, and have knowledge varying from the minimum knowledge of a common fine plant-life to maximum knowledge, Omniscience.
Matter may change into many kinds of fine and gross molecules, of which the different objects of the world and the bodies of living beings are formed, yet does not and cannot lose its peculiar attributes of materiality. Colour, smell, taste and touch which are its main attributes can never be lost. This persistent retention of an unchangeable inner-self, whether of matter or soul, is the basic truth of the universe. Soul is different from the body or Karmas. the privilege of the real standpoint to see no connection between " self " and " non-self."
It is
जदि जीवो ग सरीरं तित्थयरायरियसंधुदी चैत्र ।
सव्वावि हवदि मिच्छा तेरा दु प्रादा हवदि देहो ॥ ३१ ॥ यदि जीवो न शरीरं तीर्थकराचार्य संस्तुतिश्चैव ।
सर्वापि भवति मिथ्या तेन तु आत्मा भवति देहः ॥ ३१ ॥ 31. If soul (is) not body, lauding of Tírthamkara and also of Áchárya (head of the saints) is wrong; therefore the soul is only the body.