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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अथ ससारस्थाना जीवाना तव भवन्ति वर्णादय ।
तस्मात् ससारस्था जीवा रूपित्वमापन्ना ॥६३॥ 63 If, as you maintain, the samsāra-jiras, the empirical egos, are identical with the characteristics of colour, etc, then these empirical souls will be endowed with physical forms
एव पोग्गलदव्व जीवो तह लक्खणेण मूढमदी ।
णिव्वाणमवगदो वि य जीवत्त पोग्गलो पत्तो ॥६४॥ Evam poggaladavvam jivo taha lakkanena mūdhamadi Nivvānamuvaga do vi ya jivattam poggalo patto (64)
एव पुद्गलद्रव्य जीवस्तथा लक्षणेन मूढमते ।
निर्वाणमुपगतोऽपि च जीवत्व पुद्गल प्राप्त ॥६४॥ 64 If, according to thy philosophy, O Thou deluded one, (soul gets physical form) then it is matter that assumes the form of jiva in samsāra and it is again the very same matter that figures in nii vna, the state of liberation of the soul
COMMENTARY Thus it is maintained that even in the samsārıc state, there 18 no identity between the soul and the physical qualities of colour, etc
If there is no identity between Jiva and the qualities of colour etc , then how 1$ it possible to describe jīva according to the different stages of sense-development as ekendriya-yiva or one-sensed organism, etc The point is cleared up in the next two gāthās
एक्क च दोण्णि तिण्णि य चत्तारि य पच इदिया जीवा।
बादरपज्जत्तिदरा पयडीओ णामकम्मस्स ॥६५॥ Ekkam cha donni tinniya chattārı ya pamcha indiyā jīvā Bādara-pajjattidarā payadio nāmakammassa
(65) एक वा द्वे त्रीणि च चत्वारि च पञ्चेन्द्रियाणि जीवा ।
बादरपर्याप्तेतरा प्रकृतयो नामकर्मण ॥६५॥ 65 Living beings with one, two, three, four, and five senses, gross and fully developed and their opposites (minute and undeveloped) are all determined by the nature of nāma karma or bodybuilding karma