Samayasara

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

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Samayasāra
Chapter - 3 Further contemplation of the distinction between them (anger etc. on the one hand and the self on the other) result in the conviction that not only they are alien factors, but also transitory, impermanent, and can be eradicated. Far from providing any shelter from danger to the self, they are themselves the causes of sorts of afflictions and miseries, suffered by the self in the worldly life. Convincing distinction and transitoriness of the causes of influx (viz., passions and psychological distortions such as anger, pride, fear, hate etc.) results in enlightenment. And once the enlightenment dawns, the enlightened self makes a solemn policy declaration “I am pure and perfect singularity, nothing except my own self, animate or inanimate, is mine or possessed by me. My characteristic quality which is truly mine is consciousness (knowledge and intuition) alone and I am replete with it.” To destroy and eradicate all the causes of influx of non-self and consequent misery, all that is required is to concentrate on the transcendental self which is free from all defilement as well as causes of defilement.
These verses indicate the supreme potency of the selfmeditation, not only to stop all painful suffering but also to eradicate the roots of suffering. Along with its enlightenment, the soul develops the capacity for self-meditation, i.e, concentrates upon the self as distinct and separate from all non-self. When one is fully convinced of the distinction between the body and the soul, one is capable of rising still higher and concentrate upon and realize the transcendental self which is free from all the limitation of the empirical self, i.e., the latter itself becomes the transcendental self by self-meditation.
Characterization of the Enlightened Soul
कम्मस्स य परिणामं णोकम्मस्स य तहेव परिणाम।
ण करेदि एदमादा जो जाणदि सो हवदि णाणी॥७॥ kammassa ya pariņāmam nokammassa ya taheva pariņāmam.
ņa karedi edamādā jo jāņadi so havadi ņāņi..7 ण वि परिणमदि ण गिण्हदि उप्पज्जदि ण परदव्वपज्जाए।
णाणी जाणतो वि हु पोग्गलकम् अणेयविहं॥८॥ na vi pariņamadi na ginhadi uppajjadi na paradavvapajjāe.
ņāņī jāņamto vi hu poggalakammam aneyaviham..8