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SAMAYSARA
This is absurd Therefore the emotional states of attachment, aversion, and delusion are only properties of the Self brought about by ajñana and they can never be present in their objects But when ajñana or nescience disappears, the impure emotions depending upon it will also disappear and the Self will regain its pure nature The presence of impure emotions and their destruction leading to the consequential restoration of the purity of the Self neither of these things can be piedicated of external objects since the nature of the physical object cannot accommodate these properties of consciousness
Next the author points out that the property of one thing cannot be produced by an entirely different thing अणदवियेण अण्णदवियस्स णो कीरइ 'गुणुप्पाओ । तम्हा उ सव्वदव्वा उप्पज्जते सहावेण ॥ ३७२ ॥ Annadaviyena annadaviyassa no kirayı gunuppavo Tamha vu sauva davva uppajjante sahavena अन्यद्रव्येणान्यद्रव्यस्य न क्रियते गुणोत्पाद । तस्मात्तु सर्वद्रव्याण्युत्पद्यन्ते स्वभावेन ॥ ३७२ ॥ 372 By one substance (dravya) the properties of another substance are never produced Therefore all substances are produced by their own nature
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COMMENTARY
By this gatha the author once again emphasises the fact that impure conditions such as attachment and aversion being attributes of consciousness are not really produced by external objects Hence if a person dissatisfied with his impure states of consciousness and actuated by sincere desire for self-reformation proceeds with a righteous indignation to destroy those external objects which he imagines to be the cause of his own impure emotions of attachment and aversion, he merely exhibits his own ignorance of the real nature of things and proceeds in a wrong path to achieve his goal of self-reformation It is this point that is elaborated in the previous six gathas and further emphasised in the piesent one
पायो ।
