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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रागो दोसो मोहो जीवस्सेव य अणण्णपरिणामा ।
एएण कारणेण उ सद्दादिसु णत्थि रागादि ॥३७॥ Râgo doso moho jīvassevaya ananna parinama Eyena karanena vu saddadisu nathi rāgādı
(371) रागो द्वेषो मोहो जीवस्यैव चानन्यपरिणामा ।।
एतेन कारणेन तु शब्दादिषु न सन्ति रागादय ॥३७१।। 371 Attachment, aversion and delusion are the soul's own inalienable modes, for thcsc icasons there is no attachment, etc in sound, etc
COMMENTARY
A substance and its intrinsic property are so intimately related to each other that if the substance is destroyed, the property is also destroyed and, conversely, when the propcity is destroyed the substance must also be destroyed For example take a flame and the light proceeding from it If the flame will be destroyed there Will be no light and if the light will be destroyed there will be no flame But in the case of objects which do not have the intimite relations, the destruction of one need not follow the destruction of the other For example take the case of lamp placed on a stand The lamp may be destroyed while the stand may remain intact and converscly the stand may break without destroying the lamp Faith, knowledge and conduct in the intiinsic properties of the Self In their impure form, they foim thu slates of the impure Self which blinded by nescience is incapable of realising its pure nature Realisation of the pure nature of the Self necessarily presupposes the destruction of these impure states of consciousness, wrong faith, wrong knowledge, and wrong cunduct Thesc attributes of the Self are externally related to karmic materials Since the psychic attiibutes of the Self have nothing to do with non-conscious matter which is only accidentally and externally related to psychic states, the destruction of the psychic states will not in any way result in the destruction of matter Otherwise destruction of the properties of the Self must lead to the destruction of matter and, conversely, the destruction of the properties of matter must lead to the destruction of the soul