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Chapter - 3
immutable.
(Kohādiehi bhāvehim jive sayam apariṇamamtamhi) And absence of mutation of the soul into psychic conditions such as anger and the like (samsārassa abhāvo pasajjade) would ultimately lead to non-existence of the worldly state of the soul (vā samkhasamao) i.e. in other words [your belief] is identical with Samkhya philosophy.
Samayasāra
(Poggalakammam koho) Again if you believe that karmic matter in the state of anger (dravya karma) (jīvam kohattam pariņāmaedi) is the substantive cause for producing psychic condition of anger etc. in the soul, then (sayamapariṇamamtam tam kohattam kiha pariṇāmayadi) how can the said state of anger mutate an immutable soul?
(Aha) And again (sayam appā) the soul, itself, (kohabhāveṇa pariņamadi) mutates into the psychical states of anger (de esa buddhi) is what you believe, then (koho jīvam kohattam parināmayade idi micchā) to say that [physical] anger is the causal agent for producing psychical state of anger will be false.
(Therefore it is proved that) (kohuvajutto ādā koho havadi) The soul which manifests its consciousness as the psychic state of anger is anger, (māṇuvajutto māṇameva) which manifests arrogance is arrogance (māuvajutto māyā), which manifests deceit is deceit (lohuvajutto loho) which manifests greed is greed.
Annotations :
In these ten verses, Ācārya Kundakunda has criticized as well as refuted the Samkhya philosophy. He has chosen this system because there is much in it which is similar to Jain philosophy. But the fundamental differences between the two systems are irreconcilable as we shall presently see.
We have, on more than one occasion, referred to the non-absolutist realism of the Jain philosophy, called anekāntavāda or the law of multiple nature of reality. It corrects the partiality of absolutist philosophies by supplementing the other side of reality, which escaped them. Anekāntavāda insists that the nature of reality/ truth is to be determined in conformity with the evidence of experience undeterred by the considerations of abstract logic.
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