Samayasara

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

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SAMAYASARA.
यं करोति भावमात्मा का स भवति तस्य भावस्य । कर्मत्वं परिणमते तस्मिन् स्वयं पुद्गलद्रव्यं ॥८॥
98. Whatever thought-activity the soul causes, he becomes doer of that thought-activity ; owing to that (thoughtactivity) Karmic matter is itself modified into (8 kinds of) Karmas.
Commentary. A wrong believer, becoming the doer of his own perverse thought-activity, becomes attached to worldly objects. These thoughts become auxiliary causes which attract similar Karmic molecules to flow into and bind the souls with many kinds of Karmic classes and sub classes. Just as water is itself transformed into vapour, by the application of heat, so Karmic molecules are by the influence of thought-activity themselves transformed into Karmas Thus really soul is not and cannot be, the doer or binder of material Karmas. In its mundane deluded form it no doubt is the doer of perverse thoughts only.
परमप्पाणं कुव्वदि अप्पाणं पिय परं करंतो सो। अण्णाणमओ जीवो कम्माणं कारगो होदि ॥६६॥ परमात्मानं कुर्वन्नात्मानमपि च परं कुर्वन् सः। अज्ञानमयो जीवः कर्मणां कारको भवति ॥६६॥
99. The soul full of wrong knowledge takes the nonself (for) the self, and also taking the self (for) the nonself, becomes the doer of Karmas (i. e., becomes subject to the bondage of Karmic matter).
Commentary. A man with wrong belief does not discriminate between the soul and non-soul ; he is engrossed totally in bodily attachment and thus has strong regard for those who seem to him helpful in the enjoyment of sense objects, and has a great dislike for those who are thought to be obstructive to the fulfilment of his desires. He does not know anger, pride, and other impure thought-activities as foreign to his real and true essence. He identifies himself with these thoughts which are really due to operation of passion-kind of material Karmas. Thus he binds Karmas which cause a long and