Spiritual Enlightenment

Author(s): Yogindu Deva, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Radiant Publishers

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Spiritual Enlightenment
nor does He possess any of the eighteen blemishes; as such He is called Shunya (void).
56. None created the Atman, nor does the Atman create anything; with reference to his Svabhava (nature) he is Nitya (eternal), but with reference to his Paryaya (condition or form) he is born and dies.
57. Know that to be Dravya which possesses Gunas (attributes) and Paryayas (conditions): that which is Svabhavi, that is, remains ever with the substance is Guna, and that which is Kramvarti (changing in succession) is called Paryaya.
58. Know the Atman as a Dravya, with Darshan (seeing) and Jnana (knowing) as his Gunas (attributes) and the Chatuurgati Paribhraman(transmigratory changes into the four grades of creation) as his Vibhava Paryayas (conditions caused by the Karmas).
59. Both the Jiva and Karma are eternal; neither creates the other; both are existing from eternity.
60. This Vyavahari Jiva (the embodied soul) by the Nimitta (cause or influence) of his previous Karmas, assumes the various conditions of virtue and evil.
61. These Karmas are of eight kinds; because of their influence the Jiva does not obtain his Atmic Svabhava (real spiritual nature).
62. The Paramanus of Pudga'a (atoms of matter) which owing to Vishaya (desires), Kashaya (passions) and Moha (ignorance or illusion) become attached to Jiva-Pradeshas (various parts of embodied soul) have been described as the Karmaprakritis by Arhats.
63. The Panch Indriya (five senses), Mana(mind or heart), Samast Vibhava Parinama (all other conditions and changes of the soul which are not natural to it) and all the tumults and turmoils in connection with the four grades of living beings are caused by Karmas.
64. All kinds of pleasures and pains to the Jiva (soul) are