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Chapter - 3
तं तस्स होदि कम्मं सो तस्स दु वेदगो अप्पा ॥ ३४ ॥ jam bhāvam suhamasuham karedi ādā sa tassa khalu kattā. tam tassa hodi kammam so tassa du vedago appā..34
Samayasara
(Je ṇāṇā āvaraṇā poggaladavvāṇam pariņāmā homti) The phenomena of the modification of the karmic matter into various types of karma viz., knowledge-obscuring etc, goes on; (jo ādā ņa karedi jāṇadi) the soul who is aware of the phenomena but does not arrogate to himself their causal agency (so ṇāņi havadi) is the enlightened one [possessor of right knowledge].
(Adā jam suhamasuham bhāvam karedi) The soul who arrogates to himself the causal agency of virtuous as well as sinful psychic states; (sa tassa khalu kattā) is, positively, the determinant of such states, (tam tassa kammam hodi so appā du tassa vedago) consequently he will become producer (kartā) and undergo the bondage as well enjoyer of the fruits of these karma.
Annotations:
In these verses, the author presents an important criterion for distinguishing the right knowledge from the perverse one. He pinpoints why the soul, from eternity has been hindered from self-realization. The worldly carrier of the soul is sustained and nourished by his perverse knowledge; and would last as long as the perversion lasts. The moment the perversion is removed and knowledge purified into right knowledge, the process of self realization commences.
Fundamentally the function of knowledge is only 'to know' i.e., "to be aware" of and not to do or to act, and hence, the pure knowledge is that which just knows i.e. is just aware of what is happening within the purview of its field without taking part in or reacting to it. And, therefore, whenever action, reaction, or arrogance of action is associated with awareness, the purity is defiled and perverted and it is fit to be called perverted knowledge.
Unfortunately, encumbrance of the soul with delusion is beginningless and same is, therefore, the case with the perverse knowledge. The soul gropes in the darkness, formulates wrong views about the truth and treads upon many a path, none leading to the region of light. The potency of the perversion is to be made
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