Samayasara

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

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continuous cycle of existences. He thinks that he is the doer of all acts, good and bad, and with this false pride, he is subjected to the miseries of the world. Right belief on the other hand is the sure way of Liberation.
परमप्पाणमकुव्वी अप्पाणं पि य परं भकुव्वंतो। सोणाणममो जीवो कम्माणमकारगो होदि ॥१०॥ परमात्मानमकुर्वन्नात्मानमपि च परमकुर्वन् । स ज्ञानमयो जीवः कर्मणामकारको भवति ॥ १०॥
100. The soul, full of right knowledge, not taking nonself as self, and also not taking self as non-self, becomes the non-doer of Karmas.
Commentary. This Gatha explains the reverse of the last. A right believer knows that his soul is pure by nature and the doer only of his own pure thought-activities, where there is no dirt of any passion. He also knows that impure thoughts, though they are modifications of his own consciousness, yet they are due to operation of deluding Karma ; the paint of passion is really the effect of Karmic dirt, it does not belong to him. Just as a man in disease thinks that he is ill. A wise man will analyse this feeling and shall find out that he is only conscious of illness, illness does not belong to him. It is an effect of physical modification. His feeling pain or the consciousness of disease is due to his attachment to his body. Herein also he is enjoying his own thought-activity of dislike for disease and of attachment for body. Similarly a right believer strongly believes that he is the knower only of Karmic effects. All anger, and all thoughts such as pride, etc., are only the paints of Karmic Molecules showing in the soul's consciousness their non-soul nature. The right believer is therefore averse to impure thought-activities, while a wrong believer indulges in them. A right believer does not bind those Karmas which cause hindrance to his path of liberation. तिविहो एसुवमोगो अस्सवियप्पं करेदि कोधोहं। कत्ता तस्सुवओगस्त होदि सो अत्तभावस्स ॥ १०१॥ त्रिविध एष उपयोग असद्विकल्पं करोति क्रोधोहं । कर्ता तस्योपयोगस्य भवति स प्रात्मभावस्य ॥ १०१ ॥