Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

Author(s): K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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YOGADRSTISAMUCCAYA
(30] The Jaina tradition belicves that the greater a soul's capacity to receive matter-particles the more 'rounds of matter-reception' it is likely to experience. Conversely, the lesser the number of the rounds of matter-reception to be experienced by a soul the lesser its capacity to receive matter-particles - so that in the last round of matter-reception a soul's capacity to receive matter particles becomes the least. And since the Jaina believes that in the last round of matter-reception a soul.exbibits behaviour of a specially noble type he can also say that a soul with the least capacity to receive matter-particles exhibits this type of behaviour. In the present verse Haribhadra is making a statement just to this effect.
चरमे पुद्गलावर्ते क्षयश्चास्योपजायते । जीवानां लक्षणं तत्र यत एतदुदाहृतम् ॥३१॥ दुःखितेषु दयाऽत्यन्तमद्वेषो गुणवत्सु च । . effaceta #qat sa paarasiga: 113 211. carame pudgalāvarle kşayas cāsyopajāyate / jivānāṁ lakṣaṇam tatra gata' etad udāhrlam ||31|| duḥkhiteșu dayā'lyantam adveşo gunavatsu ca /
aucityāt sevanan caiva sarvatraivāvišcşatah 1132|| And the diminution of a soul's capacity to receive matter-particles becomes possible when it is undergoing the last round of matter-reception ; for the following are the characteristics of a man at that time (i. e. during the course of the last round of matter-reception): great compassion for those who are in misery, non-enmity towards the qualified ones, maintaining propriety in one's dealing with all without exception.
[31] In this verse Haribhadra is making explicit an idea that was already implicit in the preceding onę, viz. that a soul .experiencing the last round of matter-reception possesses the least capacity to receive matter-particles.
एवंविधस्य जीवस्य भद्रमूर्तेर्महात्मनः। . शुभो निमित्तसंयोगो जायतेऽवञ्चकोदयात् ॥३३॥ evamvidhasya jivasya bhadramūrter mahālmanaḥ śubho nimittasamyogo jāyale'dañcakodayāt 1133||
Such a large-hearted person and one whose very sight is endearing comes to acquire - in a manner that is pure-all the required accessories,