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

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________________ SAMAYASARA. 125. (If) soul causes Karmic matter (to transform) with Karmic forms (of 8 kinds), how then can the conscious (soul) cause transformation in them, (when) they by themselves are incapable of modification. Commentary. If any one were to say that matter in itself is not possessed of the attribute of modification, and that it is only the soul which affects matter and transforms it into Karmic bondage, he would be in error. No agency can transform a thing which does not possess the capacity of transforming itself into its own possible forms. Gold has got the capacity of modifying itself into different forms such as bracelets, ear-rings, gold wire, gold leaf etc., and the goldsmith's thought-activity and his hands and implements become the auxiliary causes bringing about various changes in its form, Gold has not the capacity of being transformed into iron, and therefore it is impossible to so transform it. From the real view-point, it is the substance itself which modifies itself into its own possible forms. Other substances act as auxiliary causes only. An auxiliary cause cannot transform a substance into its own forms without that substance having the capacity of self-modification. Therefore a soul by itself cannot bind Karmas. It is owing to the bondagecauses of wrong-belief etc., that Karmic matter itself becomes modified into Karmas. एए सयं वद्धो कम्मे ण सयं परिणमदि कोहमादीहिं। जदि एस तुझ जीवो अप्परिणामी तदा होदि ॥ १२६ ॥ न स्वयं बद्धः कर्मणि न स्वयं परिणमते क्रोधादिभिः । यद्येषः तव जीवोऽपरिणामी तदा भवति ॥ १२६॥ 126. If this thy soul neither itself is bound hy Karmas, nor itself is transformed (modified) into anger, etc., (impure conscious thought-activities), then it (soul) becomes incapable of modification. Commentary. According to the dictum of Tirthankaras every substance, soul or non-soul, has got the capacity of modification. If one takes the one-sided view that the soul has neither such impure thoughtactivities as anger etc., nor is it bound by Karmas, then the soul Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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