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Soul Science: Samayasara by Jain Acārya Kundakunda
अथ संसारस्थानां जीवानां तव भवंति वर्णादयः
तस्मात्संसारस्था जीवा रूपित्वमापन्नाः ॥63॥
एवं पुद्गलद्रव्यं जीवस्तथालक्षणेन मूढमते ।
निर्वाणमुपगतोऽपि च जीवत्वं पुद्गलः प्राप्तः ॥64||
Mundane Jiva (living beings) have color etc. Liberated souls do not have color etc. [Therefore, in reality, the color etc., are not of Jiva.] [61]
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If you believe that all these characteristics [color etc.] are [really of] Jiva, then there would remain no difference, whatsoever, between Jiva and non-Jiva in your belief. [62]
Or, if you believe that mundane Jīva have color etc., then all mundane Jīva will be endowed with visible form etc. [63]
Since visible form etc., are the characteristics of matter (Pudgala), therefore, oh, deluded one!, [in that case] the matter substance (Pudgala) [of the physical body of a living being] would be called as Jiva, and on liberation the same very matter (the physical body recognized as a mundane Jiva) would attain the soulness (Jivatva).[64]
Annotation
It has been explained in the previous stanzas that color etc., are of Jiva from the relative point of view. Here in Gāthā 61, it is further added that even from the relative point of view this is applicable to mundane souls only, because a liberated soul (Siddha) is not associated with a physical body or any of those previously mentioned 29 characteristics.
This Gāthā also conveys that a mundane soul becomes free from color, smell, physical body, etc., on liberation. Therefore, it is clear that 29 characteristics such as color, smell, physical body, etc., do not remain associated with a soul forever. As such a soul should not be considered as the real owner of these characteristics. An owner of a characteristic in the real sense is supposed to own that characteristic permanently.
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