Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 3

SR No.: 008004
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 586
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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Vada] Ganadharavada
: 38: त्वाधसम्भवादिति । अथ साध्यविरुद्धसाधकत्वाद् विरुद्धा एते हेतव इति तव मतिर्भवेत् , तथाहि-घटादीनां कत्रादिरूपाः कुलालादयो मूर्तिमन्तः, सघातरूपाः, अनित्यादिस्वभावाश्च दृष्टाः, इत्यतो जीवोऽप्येवंविध एव सिध्यति, एतद्विपरीतश्च किलास्माकंसाधयितुमिष्टः, इत्येवं साध्यविरूद्धसाधकत्वं हेतूनामिति । तदेतदयुक्तत्वाद् न, यतः खलु संसारिणो जीवसा साधयितुमिष्टस्याऽदोषोऽयम् । स ह्यष्टकर्मपुद्गलसंघातोपगूढत्वात् सशरीरत्वाच कथंचिन्मूर्तत्वादिधर्मयुक्त एवेति ॥ २२ (१५७०) ॥
D. C.-Up till. now, it has, no doubt, been proved that it is the soul and the soul alone which is a doer, adhisthātr, ādātr, an enjoyer and the svāmin of the body, organs of sensc, etc. For God or the like cannot be admitted as a doer etc., of the body, since such a statement will be opposed to reason But it must be admitted that the hetus put forward to prove that the soul is a doer etc , are viruddha (contrary) as they establish such a type of the soul which is just the contrary to what is desired. To be explicit, a potter who is a doer of a pitcher has a body, and he is in the form of a collection, and is of an impermanent nature. The same must be the case with the soul. But this type of soul is just opposed to what we are aiming at to establish. And hence, these hetus lead us to the conclusions we are opposed to. This is not so; for, we are at present establishing the existence of a mundane soul and not that of a liberated one; and that a mundane soul is somehow murta; for, it is certainly embraced by a collection of eight karmans, a kind of matter, and it has a body.
There is another anumāna for establishing the existence of the soul.
अत्थि चिय ते जीवो संसयओ सोम्म ! थाणुपुरिसो व्व । जं संदिद्धं गोयम ! त तत्थन्नत्थ वत्थि धुवं ॥ २३ ॥ (१५७१) Atthi cciya te jivo sarsayö somma 1 thāņupuriso vva i Jam sandiddham Goyama! tè tatthannattha vatthi dhuvain. 23 (1571)