Soul Science Part 01

Author(s): Parasmal Agrawal
Publisher: Kundakunda Gyanpith

Page 85

Soul Science : Samayasāra by Jain Ācārya Kundakunda
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The ignorant persons who do not know the Self (soul) declare a non-Self as the Self. Some ignorant persons describe the Adhyavasāna (thoughts of likings and disliking associated with wrong belief) as Jiva (soul) and some state that Karma is Jiva. [39]
Some identify Jīva (soul) as the intense and mild feelings in the form of Adhyavasāna. Some identify the physical body (Nokarma or quasi-Karma) as Jiva (soul). [40]
Some believe the rise (fruition) of Karma as Jīva (soul). Based on the [wrong] notion of the ability of Jiva becoming intense and mild, some believe that the strength of the fruition of Karma is Jiva. [41]
Some consider the combination of Jīva (which is unknown to them) and Karma as Jīva. Some believe that the association of [eight types of] Karma is Jīva. [42]
'In all these and many other wrongful ways, perverse-minded living beings identify the Self with non-Self. Those who subscribe to tae real point of view (who know the reality] do not regard all such ignorant living beings as the believers of the ultimate truth (the reality). [43]
Annotation
In these stanzas and in many other stanzas in this chapter, Ācārya Kundakunda has explained the soul by describing what the soul is not. Such description in the negation mode is also important and desirable. The erroneous concepts prevent the