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CHAPTER III णवि परिणमदि ण गिहदि उप्पनदि ण परदग्ब पनाए ।
णाणी जाणतो वि हु पोग्गलकम्मफलमणंतं ॥७॥ navi parinamadi na ginhadi uppajjadi na paradavva pajiae ņāni janamto vi hu poggalakanmuphalaranamtam (78)
नापि परिणमति न गृहास्युत्पद्यते न परद्रव्यपर्याये ।
ज्ञानी जानन्नपि खलु पुद्गलकर्मफलमनन्तम् ॥७८॥ 78. The (pleasant and the unpleasant) fruits of Karmic materials are really infinite While in the process of knowing these, the knower neither manifests in, nor is identified with, nor causes the appearance of these inodifications of alien substance.
COMMENTARY Pleassant and unpleasant experiences of the empirical Self are really the fruits of Karmic influence which is material in nature. Thus realising the true origin of the fruits of Karma, the Pure Self cannot call these his own. Nor can he identify himself with these. Here also it is emphasised that the knower is in no way causally related to the objects known.
Thus after rejecting the doctrine from the real standpoint that the Atmā or the Self is the causal agent in relation to modification of alien things as well as of the various impure psychic states, the author goes to establish a similar relation with reference to the matter that it also cannot stand as causal agent in relation to modification in the cetana entity, Self.
णवि परिणमदि गिलदि उप्पजदि ण परदश्वपनाए ।
पोग्गलदव्वं पि तहा परिणमदि सएहिं भावेहिं ॥७९॥ navi barinamadi na ginhadi ubbajjadi na baradavvabajine poggaladavvam pi tahā pariņa madi saehim bhāvehiin (79)
नापि परिणमति न गृह्णात्युत्पद्यते न परद्रव्यपर्याये ।
पुद्गलद्रव्यमपि तथा परिणमति स्वकै वैः ॥७९॥ 79. In the same way, matter also manisests in characteristic material modifications. In reality it neither manifests in, nor is identical with, nor causes the appearance of modifications in (jiva) which substance is of alien nature.
COMMENTARY Just as the Self cannot be related to physical modifications as the upādāna kāraña or substantial cause, so also matter cannot
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