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निश्चयप्रत्याख्यानाधिकार
6- THE REAL RENUNCIATION
point-of-view, the soul and the body are never the same as these are made up of different substances. From the point-of-view of its pure nature, the soul is incorporeal. One may argue that since the soul becomes one with the body because of the influence of karmas it must not be considered separate from the body. This is not true. Though the soul is one with the body in the embodied state, it is different from the body because of its distinctive characteristics. The soul (jīva) and the matter (pudgala) are two different substances. The former is conscious and incorporeal and the latter is unconscious and corporeal. Every embodied self (samsārī jīva) has a soul and a body. It has a gross body, and a karmic body (kārmaņa śarīra) comprising extremely subtle particles of matter. Both these bodies vanish as the soul attains liberation. On destruction of darkness, that is ignorance, the Self attains the power of discrimination between what needs to be accepted and rejected. Self-knowledge thus leads to the science-of-discrimination (bhedavijñāna) - the soul is distinct from the matter and the matter is distinct from the soul.
इस प्रकार श्री कुन्दकुन्दाचार्य विरचित नियमसार ग्रन्थ में
निश्चयप्रत्याख्यानाधिकार नाम का छठवाँ अधिकार समाप्त हुआ।
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