Samayasara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Jethalal S Zaveri
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Samayasura
Chapter - 1
In the previous verses it was clearly stated that niscaya naya holds that the self is totally free from material encumbrances and is pure consciousness. “How can anyone be” wonders the Ācārya "so blind when omniscient have directly cognized the real and ultimate character of self and found it possessing nothing but upayoga (consciousness). If the experiences of those who have realized the truth are reliable and trustworthy what is it that hides the truth from them? There must be some reason or explanation for their common ignorance or perverse knowledge. It the truth is not unknowable, if the records of the scriptures are trustworthy, there must be something which obstructs the innate capacity of the soul to know the truth. The cause of this state of the soul is nothing else but beginningless ignorance (ajñāna) and perversity or nescience (mithyātva).
A Psycho-physical Problem and its Solution ___ जदि जीवो ण सरीरं तित्थयरायरियसंथुदी चेव।
सव्वा वि हवदि मिच्छा तेण दु आदा हवदि देहो॥२६॥ jadi jīvo ņa sarīram titthayarāyariyasamthudī ceva. savvā vi havadi micchā tena du ādā havadi deho.. 26
ववहारणओ भासदि जीवो देहो य हवदि खलु एक्को।
ण दुणिच्छयस्स जीवो देहो य कदावि एक्कट्ठो॥२७॥ vavahäranao bhāsadi jīvo deho ya havadi khalu ekko.
ņa du nicchayassa jīvo deho ya kadāvi ekkattho.. 27
[A disciple raises a query-] (Jadi) If, as stated, (jīvo na sarīram) the soul is not the body, (titthayarāyariya-samthudi) then worship of tīrtharkaras and ācāryas (savvā vi micchā havadi) serves no purpose at all; (teņa du) and so in my opinion (ādā) the soul (deho ceva havadi) is identical with the body.
The Ācārya offers a soulution-(Vyavahāraṇao bhāsudi) vyavahāra naya-the empirical view-holds that (jīvo deho ya khalu ekko havadi) the soul and the body is, surely, a unity; however, (nicchayassa du) according to the niscaya naya i.e., the ultimate truth is that (jivo deho ya na kadāvi ekkattho) the soul and the body can never be identical [because they are made of different substances).
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