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Samayasära
Chapter - 9 consider the application of spiritual energy essential for achieving emancipation. Now it is clear that knowledge and spiritual action are equally necessary for emancipation. The psychic action, here, means the application of pure psychic energy, i.e., ātinika vīrya which is without the corruption such as attachment and aversion. It is well known that even after demolishing the deluding karma and the knowledge-obscuring karma and attaining pure and perfect knowledge-kevalajñāna-the soul has to destroy the residual karma by the application of spiritual energy called sukladhyāna. Thus, pure knowledge is futile without kriyā; at the same time, kriyā is futile without knowledge, which is consistent with the popular saying, “knowledge without kriyā is cripple and kriyū without knowledge is blind.”!
In these verses the author refutes some false beliefs about the method and process of final liberation. Though there is no dispute about the state of final liberation, there are many false notions about its process. It is universally accepted that the liberations means freedom from bondage, that is, separation of Self from the bondage of Non-self. However, some people believe and maintain that :
(i) A thorough theoretical knowledge about various features of bondage is enough to get freedom.
(ii) Constant and concentrated thinking about the bondage is enough to get freedom.
(iii) Contemplation or mental concentration on various facets of bondage is sure to lead to freedom.
The author uses a simple analogy of a person who is fettered with chains in the worldly life, to refute all the above views which are false and misleading. A person in chains, in course of his long 1. Jain scriptures specify two types of psychophysical energy: (1) Karma Vīrya: the energy of a living organism produced by the rise and fruition of karma. This is the common bio-energy of the organism which enables it to perform threefold-mental, vocal and bodily-activities, which, in tur, becomes the cause of the bondage of new karma. (2) Akarma or åtmika vīrya: pure psychic or spiritual energy which is normally obstructed by energy-obstructing (antarāya) karma. It is this energy which enables the soul to demolish the bondage of karma.
Detailed discussion about both these types of energy is found in Chapter 8 of Sūyagado, part I.
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