Samayasara

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

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two are entirely different; and any view to the slightest degree contrary to this, spells delusion, mistake, perversity for wrong belief. The right-believer knows the unbridgeable gulf between the two and realises the Soul as a supreme, essential, primary, eternal, indestructible reality.
CHAPTER III.
The Ethio of Action. जाव ण वेदि विलेसं तरं तु आदासवाण दोर्णपि । भएणाणी ताव दु सो कोधादिसु वदे जीवो ॥७४ ॥ याचन्न वेत्ति विशेषांतरं त्वात्मस्रवयोयोरपि । अज्ञानी तावत्स क्रोधादिषु वर्तते जीवः ॥ ७४ ॥
74. And so long as he does not know the special difference between the two (i.e., the pure) soul and the (thought) inflow (in the form of anger, etc.); till then he is ignorant. (Such a) soul indulges in anger, etc. (as being one with them).
Commentary. This chapter contains the refutation of the wrong belief which takes the thought-activities of anger, pride, deceit, greed, etc., to be the soul's own actions and the soul to be their actor. So long as a soul does not recognise its own true nature which is passionlessness, it identifies itself with the passions of anger, etc. Yet an ignorant man, the deluded mundane soul, can never realise his true SELF as being really devoid of all thought-activities and full only of his own (Párinámika) thought-activity. The ignorant man indulges freely in anger, etc. He is subjected to inflow of Karmas, owing to this perverse belief, and suffers the miseries of mundane existence.
कोधादिसु वदंतस्स तस्स कम्मरस संचो होदि । जीवस्लेवं बंधो भणिदो खलु सम्बदरसीहिं॥७५॥ क्रोधादिषु वर्तमानस्य तस्य कर्मणः संचयो भवति । जीवस्यैवं पंधो भणितः खलु सर्वदर्शिभिः ॥ ७५ ॥