Samayasara

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

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जीवो ण करेदि घडं व पडं व सेसगे दव्वे । जोगुवोगा उप्पादगा य सो तेसिंहवदि कत्ता ॥ १०७ ॥ जीवो न करोति घटं नैव परं नैव शेषकानि द्रव्याणि । योगोपयोगात्पादकौ च तयोर्भवति कर्त्ता ॥ १०७ ॥
107. The soul does not make the pitcher, nor cloth, nor the other things ; soul's vibratory activity (of mind, body and speech) and conscious attention are the producers (of them), and that soul is the doer of that Vibration and Attention.
Commentary.
The author here points out that the soul is neither the root cause of material modifications nor an auxiliary cause of them, if considered from real standpoint. Mundane souls have got vibratory activities due to actions of mind, body and speech; and passionate conscious thought-activities owing to operation of body making and deluding Karmas. These vibrations and impure thoughts only become by themselves auxiliary causes for transformation of clay into pot, threads into cloth, wood into chair, etc., and for sense-activities, formations of physical body, and bondage of Karmic molecules. These vibrations and impure thoughts are, from the practical standpoint, said to belong to souls. But if one sees from the pure real standpoint, one will find no soul affected by vibrations or passions. If the souls themselves become auxiliary causes for material modifications, the pure souls will also be subjected to this. But it is not. so with pure souls. They have got no vibrations or passions. Thus really the soul is neither the auxiliary cause, nor the root cause of material modifications.
जे पुग्गलदव्त्राणं परिणामा होति गायआवरणा ।
करेदि ताणि आदा जो जायदि सो हवदि गाणी ॥ १०८ ॥
ये पुलद्रव्याणां परिणामा भवंति ज्ञानावरणानि । न करोति तान्यात्मा यो जानाति स भवति ज्ञानी ॥ १०८ ॥
108. The soul does not cause the knowledge-obscuring and other (Karmas) which are conditions of material Karmas. He who knows ( this ) is the Knower.