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Soul Science : Samayasāra by Jain Ācārya Kundakunda
Annotation
In Gāthā 69, there is an emphasis on the difference and separateness between the soul and the associated Āsrava (influx of Bhāva Karma in the form of psychic dispositions such as emotions of anger etc.). It may be noted that as compared to identifying oneself as different and separate from the physical body, the task of realizing the difference and separateness between the soul and Asrava (anger etc.) is very difficult.
Perception and knowledge are essential attributes of a soul. Just as heat is always associated with fire, perception and knowledge are always associated with a soul. Anger and other emotions do not fall in that category. These are temporary and depend on the fruition (Udaya) of the previously bonded material Karma. The perception and knowledge exist even wiien the soul becomes free from all material Karma, but the anger and emotions (psychic dispositions or Bhāva Karma) do not exist when the soul becomes free from all material Karma.
This stanza provides a test for recognizing our spiritual ignorance: If someone does not know that his soul and the associated emotions of anger etc., are different and separate then that living being is spiritually ignorant. Earlier also (e.g., see Gāthā 36, 68), Ācārya Kundakunda has described the separateness and difference between the soul and anger.
In Gāthā 70, Ācārya Kundakunda further says that with such an identification of the Self with the anger etc., a living being indulges in the anger etc. Such an ignorant being knows very well that the anger etc., are his deeds and he is the doer. Such a relationship, between the soul and the anger etc., is known as a doer-deed (Kartā-Karma) relationship. An indulgence with the anger etc. or an acceptance of such a doer-deed relationship leads to the bonding of material Karma with the soul.
जइया इमेण जीवेण अप्पणो आसवाण य तहेव। णादं होदि विसेसंतरं तु तइया ण बंधो से।।71॥ Jaiyā imeņa jīveņa appaņo āsavāņa ya taheva. Nādam hodi visesantaram tu taiyā na bandho se.||71||
