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SAMAYASARA
COMMENTARY Thus the devotional songs in praise of the bodily beauty of the Lord are justified from the vyavahāra point of view, because the beauty of the body is but the expression of the inner beauty of the soul with which it is found in union. Though considered as one from the vyavahāra point, because of their association, still soul and body do not lose their intrinsic characteristics. They are really distinct in nature. The soul has its intrinsic characteristic of upayoga (darśana and jñāna) which characteristic is not present in matter. This fact clearly brings out their intrinsic difference. The commentators explain this combination of different things to constitute a unitary whole by a practical illustration. Gold and silver, both being precious metals, may be used in combination for certain purposes such as ornament-making, etc. Though they go together to constitute the whole so manufactured, still they do not lose their respective qualities. Gold is gold and silver is silver. One is yellow and the other is white. Hence the two can never become one in nature really. In the same way, soul and body, though found together in an embodied individual, the unity must be taken to be true from the practical point of view and not from the absolute point of view.
इणमण्णं जीवादो देहं पोग्गलमयं थुणित्तु मुणी ।
मण्णदि हु संथुदो वंदिदो मए केवली भयवं ॥२८॥ iņamannam jīvādo dehań poggalamayain Thuņittu munī maņņadi hu samthudo vandido mae kevali bhayavani (28)
इदमन्यत् जीवादेहं पुद्गलमयं स्तुत्वा मुनिः ।
मन्यते खल संस्तुतो वन्दितो मया केवली भगवान् ॥२८॥ 28. By adoring the body which is different from the soul and which is constituted of matter, the saint believes, “The Omniscient Lord is thus adored and worshipped by me."
COMMENTARY His assumption is justified from the vyavahāra point of view because the praise of the body is but the praise of the personality. But in reality, the bodily characteristics, however beautiful and adorable, connot be the genuine characteristics of the Paramātmā.
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