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Soul Science: Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
one can say that he is an enlightened person or Jñānī or SamyagDrști. Such an enlightened person realizes oneself as a soul with knowledge/perception attribute. He realizes the associated anger and associated physical body as separate and different from his real identity (true Self). With such realization he (as a soul) does not become doer of anger or doer of any intention or desire of doing any task of physical body, etc.
(iv) The use of 'etc.' with the word 'anger' in stanza 181 shows that other emotions (Asrava Bhāva) are also to be included with the word 'anger' in understanding these
stanzas.
Question: Does it mean that a SamyagDrști does not have any desire of eating food? Does it mean that a SamyagDrști does not eat food? Does it mean that a SamyagDrști never becomes angry?
Answer: If a person sees the non-separateness of the physical body and the soul, then he also sees that the soul is eating food. Such a person not only sees this for himself but also sees for all others. But a SamyagDrști sees differently. He visualizes the separateness of the soul and physical body even though both occupy the same space (Lokākāśa Pradeśa). He also visualizes the desire arising in the mind for the food as well as the act of eating the food. He is also aware of the anger and other emotions arising in the associated physical body and mind. In the midst of all such tasks of his personality he knows the science-of-separateness (Bheda-Vijñāna) that reveals the separateness of his soul from emotions as well as physical body. As mentioned earlier, a SamyagDrști identifies oneself as a soul only, and as a soul he does not become doer of these tasks or doer of intention of doing these tasks. As a soul he becomes simply a knower. In this regard, to avoid any
