Samayasara OR Nature of Self

SR No.: 011119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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SAMAYSAKA
Steady the soul in spite of its several psychic modifications remains steady in itself unperturbed just as the sea which remains steady in spite of the disturbance caused on its surface by the waves
Without any difference the different qualities such as weight, colour, and malleability do not in any way interfere with the nature of gold Similarly the possession of the psychic qualities like knowledge, perception, etc, does not in any way differentiate the Atman It remains undifferentiated in spite of the qualities
Not combined this quality refers to the impossibility of the accidental emotional characteristics such as desire and aversion, combining with the true nature of the soul This implies that the Self cannot be identified with the various emotions which are accidental characteristics
जो पस्सदि अप्पाण अबद्धपुट्ठ अणण्णमविसेसम् ।
अपदेससुत्तमझ पस्सदि जिणसासण सव्व ॥१५॥ Jo passadı appānam abaddhaputtham anannamavisēsam Apadēsasuttamajjham passado jinasāsanam savvam (15)
य पश्यति आत्मान अबद्धस्पृष्टमनन्यमविशेषम् ।
अपदेशसूत्रमध्य पश्यति जिनशासन सर्वम् ॥१५॥ 15 He who perceives the Self as not bound, not touched, not other than self, steady and without any difference, understands the whole faina doctrine which is the kernal of the Scripture
COMMENTARY The author emphasises the fact that complete realisation of the full Self is identical with the perception of the whole reality, which is the topic discussed in the Jaina Sculpture Knowledge of the Knower is also the Knowledge of the Known
दसणणाणचरित्ताणि सेविदव्वाणि साहुणा णिच्च ।
ताणि पुण जाण तिण्णि वि अप्पाण चेव णिच्छयदो ॥१६॥ Damsananānacharittānı sēvidavvānı sāhună nichcham Tāni puna jānatinnivi appānam cheva nichchhyado (16)
दर्शनशानचारित्राणि सेवितव्यानि साधुना नित्यम् । तानि पुनर्जानीहि त्रीण्यपि आत्मान चैव निश्चयत ॥१६॥