Samayasara

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

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SAMAYASARA.
life of a layman, his right belief makes his knowledge right, and his right knowledge leads to right conduct. He is alive to the weakness of his conduct and tries to strengthen it as far as possible. His practice of self-realisation commences from the time he becomes a right-believer. His right belief is indeed a form of self-realisation. The practice of self-realisation is the real conduct. It produces purity which shortens the duration of passion-breeding Karmas and weakens their strength. By gradual practice, when the vowless soul subdues the partial-vow-preventing passions (Apratyákhyánávarana Kasháya) he adopts the vows of a layman. There are eleven grades of the house-holder's life. So far as he weakens the operation of other passions, he advances higher in these classes. When by the practice of self-realisation he subdues the total-vow-preventing passions (Pratyákhyánávarana Kasháya he becomes a saint with full vows. Thus really, self-knowledge and self-realisation bring about complete freedom from all-deluding Karma, and when the deluding Karma is destroyed, he becomes an Omniscient within one antar múhúrta and is the adorable of all animals, men and celestials as the Ideal Perfection of Peace and Bliss.
अहमिको खलु सुद्धो य णिम्ममो णाणदंसणसमग्गो । तमि ठिदो तच्चित्तो सव्वे एदे खयं णेमि ॥ ७८ ॥ अहमेकः खलु शुद्धश्च निर्ममतः ज्ञानदर्शनसमग्रः । तस्मिन् स्थितस्तचित्तः सर्वानेतान् क्षयं नयामि ॥ ७८ ॥
78. I (am) certainly the one, pure, unattached to the non-self, full of perfect conation and knowledge ; fixed in that (pure soul), and absorbed in that, I shall lead all these (anger, etc.) to destruction.
Commentary. A right-believer having fully understood his soul to be not the real actor of anger, etc., realises himself as having an individuality distinct from all souls and non-souls, quite pure, with no attachment to any one and full of its own real attributes of conation, knowledge, peace, power and happiness. This self-realisation weakens the forces of Karmas, which affect passionate thought-activities. This self-realisation or self-absorption also destroys the deluding Karma and makes the soul free from all sorts of bondage. It is therefore necessary to practise self-realisation.