Book Title: Samayasara OR Nature of Self
Author(s): A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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________________ CHAPTER II 57 Milk cum water is given as an example of mixture Fire cum heat is given as an example of substance and its quality The different things constituting the mixture can be separated from each other But the substance and its quality cannot be separated at any time Quality without substance and susbtance without quality will be empty abstractions incapable of independent existence But a mixture is not so, because the inter-mixing substances can be separated when necessary The predominating substance in the mixture will give its colour to the mixture Thus in the case of milk ind water which is compared to the intermixti ie of soul and its material upādıs, the dominant substance being milk 1t is still called milk, when diluted with water Exactly similar is the relation between hiva and its upädis Though their intermixtute is from time immemoiial, they can be separated from each other, as when the jiva attains moksha or liberation Since the dominant factor in this mixture is jīva, the characteristics of the mixture from colour onwards to stages of spiritual development are considered as the attributes of the soul from the vyavahāra point of view From the real point of view, the soul must be described in terms of upayoga (cognitive activity of knowledge and perception) which quality is inseparable from Jiva Even when the jiva becomes perfect through self-realisation this quality of upayoga will be inseparably present in it, in its complete form as keevala jnāna and kevala darsana The reconciliation between the vyavahāra point of view and the real point of view is effected by bringing in a popular illustration पथे मुस्सत पस्सिदूण लोगा भणति ववहारी। मुस्सदि एसो पथो ण य पथो मुस्सदे कोई ॥५८॥ Panthe mussantam jassiduna lôgā bhanantı vavahārī Mussadı eso pantho naya pantho mussade koi (58) पथि मुष्यमाण दृष्ट्वा लोका भणन्ति व्यवहारिण । मुष्यते एष पन्था न च पन्था मुष्यते कश्चित् ॥५८॥ 58 Seeing some one robbed on a road, ordinary people adopting the vyavahāra point of view, say "this road is robbed " But really what is robbed is not the road

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