Samayasara

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

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tance or group of attributes and modifications. One substance can never become another. They experience mutual and auxiliary actions and interactions. Space locates substances. Time gives duration, newness, oldness, continuity, change or permanence. Dharma helps the movements of souls and matter; Adharma, the cessation of movements. Mighty matter invests the potentially Almighty Soul with the Karmic and other bodies, and thus makes the Monarch, the Lord of the Universe, act the comedy and tragedy of endless cycles of an earthly existence. The Almighty Soul itself owns and masters all other substances by his knowledge of them. All substances possess the attribute of knowability.
The great Samsara is really a drama of two principal actors; matter is an auxiliary cause of producing impure thought-activity of attachment, hatred, pain, and pleasure etc., while the mundane soul's impure thought-activities become causes of modification of matter into Karmic bondage, formation of food, houses, clothes, pots and different articles. A right-knower knows the true nature of the phenomena of the universe.
एदे कारण दु कत्ता आदा सण भावेण । पुग्गलकम्मकदारांण दु कत्ता सव्वभावाणं ॥ ८८ ॥ एतेन कारणेन तु कर्त्ता आत्मा स्वकेन भावेन । पुद्गलकर्मकृतानां न तु कर्त्ता सर्वभावानां ॥ ८ ॥
88. For this reason, really the soul is the doer (of its modifications) by its own thought-activity. And is not the doer of all the modifications caused by Karmic matter.
Commentary.
Every substance modifies only into its own forms; the soul therefore modifies into its own thought- activities. It cannot cause the modification of material forms. Karmas bound to mundane souls are caused only by the material Karmic molecules.
पिच्छयणस्स एवं यादा अप्पाणमेव हि करेदि । वेदयदि पुणो तं चैव जाण मत्ता दु अत्ताणं ॥ ८६ ॥ निश्चयनयस्यैवमात्मात्मानमेव हि करोति । वेदयते पुनस्तं चैव जानीहि आत्मा त्वात्मानं ॥ ८ ॥