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एवं ण कोवि मोक्खो दीसइ लोयसमणाण दोण्हंपि । णिच्च कुव्वंताणं सदेवमणुासुरे लोये ॥३२३॥ evas na kovi mokkho disai loyasamaņāņa domhampi niccam kovvastānam sadevamanuāsure loye (323) एवं न कोऽपि मोक्षो दृश्यते लोकश्रमणानां द्वयेषामपि । नित्यं कुर्वतां सदेव मनुजान् सुरान् लोकान् ॥३२३॥
321 to 323; According to the ordinary people Vişņu creates all creatures celestial, hellish, sub-human and human; if according to the Śramaņas, the soul creates his six kinds of organic bodies, then between the popular doctrine and the Śramaņa doctrine, both being identical, no difference can be perceived. For the people it is Vişņu that creates and for the Śramaņas it is the Self that creates. Thus if the ordinary people and the Sramaņas both believe in the doctrine of perpetual creation of worlds, human and divine, then there is no such thing as mokṣa or liberation discernible in their doctrine.
COMMENTARY Creative activity also implies desire to achieve something. The moment a desire to achieve an ideal appears, there comes a train of emotions such as attachinent, aversion, delusion, etc, Hence continuous creative activity implies perpetuation of sar sāra and hence there is no chance for liberation or mukti. .
Next, when the Self and non-Self are so entirely distinct and when there is no chance of association of any kind between the two, much less the causal relatation, how does the feeling of doer occur in the Self? The following gathas offer an explanation.
ववहारभासिएण उ परदव्वं मम भणंति विदियत्था । जाणंति णिच्छयेण उ णय मम परमाणुमेत्तमवि किंचि ॥३२४॥ vavahārabhāsieņa u paradavvam mama bhanamti vidijattha... jāņamti nicchayena u raya mama paramanumettamavi kidici
व्यवहारभाषितेन तु परद्रव्यं मम भणन्ति विदितार्थाः । जानन्ति निश्चयेन तु न च मम परमाणुमात्रमपि किंचित् ॥३२४॥
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