Samayasara

SR No.: 006764
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 370
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 20 MB

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CHAPTER III jo jamhi guno davve so annamhi du na samkamadi davve so annamasamkamto kaha tam pariņamae davvam (103) यो यस्मिन् गुणो द्रव्ये सोऽन्यस्मिंस्तु न संक्रामति द्रव्ये । सोऽन्यदसंक्रान्तः कथं तत्परिणामयति द्रव्यम् ॥१०३॥
103. Whatever be the essential quality of a particular substance it cannot be transported to another substance of a different nature. Thus being non-transportable, how can the quality of one substance manifest as the quality of another substance ?
COMMENTARY Jaina metaphysics recognises various dravyas or substances each with its own proper guņas or qualities. Thus jīva, the Self has its peculiar quality of cetana, and pudgala or matter its own quality acetana. The former is conscious and the latter is nonconscious. Similarly with the other dravyas. Since the quality of a substance is the result of the manifestations of the intrinsic nature of that substance neither the quality nor the substance can be separated from each other. Since the dravya and its guņa are so inseparably united the guna of one dravya cannot be transferred to another dravya. Thus the gunas are nontransferrable, and the dravyas are non-transmutable. Thus the cetana dravya, the Self, cannot manifestas acetana dravya or matter. Conversely matter cannot manifest as Self.
दव्वगुणस्स य आदा ण कुणदि पोग्गलमयम्हि कम्मम्हि । तं उभयमकुव्वंतो तम्हि कहं तस्स सो कत्ता ॥१०४॥ dawvagunassa ya ādā ņu kuņadi poggalamayamhi kammamhi tam ubhayamakuvvasto tamhi kaham tassa so kattā (104) द्रव्यगुणस्य च आत्मा न करोति पुद्गलमयानि कर्माणि ।
तदुभयमकुर्वस्तस्मिन् कथं तस्य स कर्ता ॥१०४॥
104. The Self does not influence the substance or the attributes of karma which are of material nature. Thus being incapable of influencing these two (aspects) of karmas, how can he be their upadana kartā (substantive causal agent).
COMMENTARY The clay out of which a pot is made has its distinct quality. The potter in making the pot, makes use of this substance with