Samayasara

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

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SAMAYASARA.
36. He, who having conquered the senses realises the soul (as) full of its own inherent knowledge, him they, who (are) saints (and) knowers of the real standpoint really call a conqueror of the senses.
Commentary. This illustrates the first point of real homage. Saints call only him a conqueror of the senses, who, having subdued all his sensegratifications, rightly knows,believes and realises his own pure soul and is absorbed in his soul. A right-believer from the fourth stage of vowless right-belief can be called a conqueror (Jina), because his error-feeding or right-belief-preventing passions have at least subsided, and he has mastered his sense desires. He has the capacity of self-realisation, and whenever he directs his attention to his own self-realisation he finds true peace and happiness in self-absorption.
जो मोहं तु जिणित्ता णाण सहावाधियं मुणदि आदं । तं जिद मोहं साहुं परमट्टवियाणया वेति ॥ ३७॥ यो मोहं तु जित्त्वां ज्ञानस्वभावाधिक मनुते प्रात्मानं । तं जितमोहं साधुं परमार्थविज्ञायका ब्रुवंति ॥ ३७॥
37. The saints, the knowers of reality, call him a conqueror of delusion, who, having conquered delusion, realises the soul (as) full of its own inherent knowledge.
Commentary. This Gatha illustrates the second aspect of homage. The saint with perfect vows ascends the subsidential ladder and practises pure concentration, by virtue of which all kinds of deluding Karmas subside and he attains to the 11th stage of subsided delusion. There he is called a conqueror of delusion.
जिदमोहस्स दु जइया खीणो मोहो हविज्ज साहुस्स। तइया दु खीणमोहो भएणदि सो णिच्छयविहिं॥३८॥ जितमोहस्य तु यदा क्षीणो मोहो भवेत्साघोः। तदा खतु क्षीणमोहो भण्यते स निश्चयविद्भिः॥ ३८ ॥
38. And when destruction of delusion takes place in a saint, the conqueror of delusion, then verily he is called delusionless by the knowers of reality.