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Chapter - 2
Sumayasūru It has been stated above that karmic matter mixes with the soul much in the same way as milk mixes with water. Now, when seen with naked eyes, milk APPEARS to be homogeneous white liquid, but when viewed through a microscope a drop of milk is seen to be a heterogeneous mixture with tiny blobs of fat floating in water. Thus, in the milk, fat and water remain separate although apparently unified. Moreover by an appropriate process, pure fat in the form of butter can be separated and obtained. Thus fat which is replete with fatness is unaffected by water. Much in the same way, the soul is replete with its own attribute-consciousness-and colour etc. cannot enter and inhere in the soul.
In the above verses, a common analogy is used to reconcile the statements made in the previous verses with the popular aspect of worldly life. In the common parlance it is said that “this road in being robbed". Now everybody knows and understands this statement to mean "a traveller using this road is likely to be robbed”. In a similar analogy, when it is asked “where does this road go", the reply is "this road goes to Benares”. It is well-known that the “road” never "goes" anywhere and the meaning of the question and answer is well established by convention of associating the road with robbery or a city. Similarly, the association of the karmic and physical bodies (which are material, and hence, possess colour and the like) with the soul establishes the conventional statement that colour etc. belongs to the soul.
The conclusion is that what is said in the scriptures by the omniscient viz., colour, smell and such other attributes are possessed by the soul, is a conventional truth and not an ultimate one. Further Elucidation of the Relation of the Soul
with Colour and the like तत्थ भवे जीवाणं संसारस्थाण होंति वण्णादी।
संसारपमुक्काणं णथि दुवण्णादओ केई॥२३॥ tattha bhave jīvānam samsāratthāna homti vannādi. samsārupamukkāņam natthi du vaņņādao ke1..23
जीवो चेव हि एदे सव्वे भाव त्ति मण्णसे जदि हि। जीवस्साजीवस्स य णत्थि विसेसो दु दे कोई ॥२४॥ jīvo ceva hi ede savve bhāva tri mannase jadi hi.
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