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अप्पा णिच्चो असंखिज्जपदेसो देसिओल समयम्हि ।
णवि सो सक्कइ तत्तो हीणो महिओ य काउं जे ॥३१२ appă nicco asamkhijjapadeso desio ut samayamhi şavi so sakkai tatio hiņo ahio ya kaum je (342) आत्मा नित्योऽसंख्येयप्रदेशो दर्शितस्तु समये। नापि स शक्यते ततो हीनोऽधिकरच कर्तुं यत् ॥३४२॥
342. Ta the Scripture, the soul is described to be eternal and ck immeasurable Cxtension. Hence, of its own accord, it is incapable of increasing or decreasing (its spatial form ).
जीवस्स जीवरूवं वित्थरओ जाण लोयमेतं खू। तत्तो सो कि हीणो अहिओ य कहं कुणइ दव्वं ॥३४३।। jivassa jivarūnam vittharao jāna loyamettani khu latto so kin hin, ahio ya kahan kunai davvaṁ (343) जीवस्य जीवरूपं विस्तरतो नानीहि लोकपात्रं खलु । ततः स किं हीनोऽधिको वा कथं करोति द्रव्यम् ॥३४३॥
343. Know ye: that the soul, from the point of view of extension, is really co-extensive with the universe. Therefore, how is this eternal substance caused to assume decreased or increased spatial form.
अह जाणओ दु भावो णाणसहावेण अत्थि इत्ति मयं । तम्हा वि अप्पा अप्पाणं तु सयमपणो कुणइ ॥३४४॥ aha jāņao du bhāvo nāṇasahāveņa atthi itti mayam tamha navi appa appānam tu sayamappans kunai (344) अथ ज्ञायकस्तु भावो ज्ञानस्वभावेन तिष्ठतीति मतम् । तस्मान्नाप्यात्मात्मानं तु स्वयमात्मनः करोति ॥३४४॥
344. It is accepted that the conscious principle remains of the nature of knowledge. Therefore, the Self, of its own accord, does not transform itself by itself.
COMMENTARY According to the Sankhya doctrine the Self or Puruşa is nitya and akarta, an absolutely unchanging, permanent cetana entity. All change and all activity proceed from acetana prakrti. The Self is only aware of the activity. Thus he is only the
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