Samayasara OR Nature of Self

Author(s): A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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76 Material karmas are of various kinds While in the process of knowing these, the knower neither manifests in, nor identifies with, nor causes the appearance of modifications of alien substance
CHAPTER III
COMMENTARY
The karmic modifications which are of various kinds are really the result of the manifestations of karmic matter Atma or Self because of its chetana nature cannot in any way be responsible for the karmic modifications These cannot be described as the result of manifestations of the Self Nor can they be identified with Self, nor their appearances be taken to be the result of this causal agency of the atma In short the self cannot be the causal agent or karta of the various karmas Thus the author emphasises that the relation between the knower and the object known is quite analogous to the relation between the light and the object illuminated That is, the knower in the process of knowing the object does not transform himself into the nature of the object known This refutes the idealistic theory of knowledge which maintains that the process of knowing creates the object known
णवि परिणमदि ण गिणदि उप्पज्जदि ण परदव्वपज्जाए । पाणी जाणतो विहु सगपरिणाम अणेयविह ॥७७॥
Navi parinamadı na ginhadi vuppajjadi na paradavva pajjāye Nani jânanto vihu sahaparināmam aneye viham (77)
नापि परिणमति न गृह्णात्युत्पद्यते न परद्रव्यपर्याये । ज्ञानी जानन्नपि खलु स्वकपरिणाममनेकविधम् ॥७७॥ Modifications in the Self (as the result of karmic influence) are of various kinds While in the process of knowing these the knower neither manifests in, nor identifies with, nor causes the appearance of modifications of alien substance
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COMMENTARY
The changes appearing in the consciousness of the empirical Self though different from the karmic materials, are really produced by the karmic influences, though indirectly Hence the Pure