Niyam Sara

SR No.: 034367
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp
Total Pages: 412
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 4 MB

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अजीवाधिकार
2 - THE NON-SOUL
The substance (dravya) is the substratum of qualities (guņa). The qualities (guņa) are the marks (cihna, lakṣaṇa) of the substance (dravya). The nature of the substance (dravya) is known by the qualities (guņa) and, therefore, the substance (dravya) is the aim (laksya) and the qualities (guņa) are the marks (lakṣaṇa). There is distinction as well as non-distinction between the aim (laksya) and the marks (laksana), depending on the standpoint. There is distinction between the aim (laksya) and the marks (laksaņa) if these are viewed from the point-of-view of the possessor-of-quality (guņi) and the quality (guņa). From this point-of-view, the possessor-of-quality (guṇī) is not the quality (guņa) and the quality (guņa) is not the possessor-ofquality (guṇī). If these are viewed from the point-of-view of the nature of the substance (dravya), there is no distinction between the aim (laksya) and the marks (lakṣaṇa); both exist in the same space-points. The marks (lakṣaṇa) are specific to the substances (dravya); the corporeal (mūrtīka) substance has corporeal (mūrtīka) qualities (guņa) and the non-corporeal (amūrtīka) substance has non-corporeal (amūrtika) qualities (guna). Only the physical matter (pudgala) is corporeal (mūrtīka) and the remaining five substances (dravya) - the soul (jīva), the medium of motion (dharma), the medium of rest (adharma), the space (ākāśa), and the time (kāla) - are non-corporeal (amūrtīka).1
दव्वं जीवमजीवं जीवो पुण चेदणोवओगमओ । पोग्गलदव्वप्पमुहं अचेदणं हवदि य अज्जीवं ॥२-३५॥
सत्तारूप वस्तु जीव तथा अजीव - इस तरह दो भेदरूप है और इन दोनों में से जीवद्रव्य चेतना और ज्ञान-दर्शनोपयोगमयी है और पुद्गल द्रव्य को आदि लेकर पाँच द्रव्य चेतना-रहित अर्थात् जड़स्वरूप अजीव द्रव्य होता है।
The substances (dravya) are of two kinds, the soul (jīva) and the non-soul (ajīva). Further, the soul (jīva) is of the nature of
1 - Acārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra - Essence of the Doctrine, p. 166.
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