Book Title: Jain Path or Path of Conqueror
Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Mathew Mckay
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Samiti Agra

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________________ ( 11 ) of Karmic matter and similarly modification of quasi-Karmic matter. He who realises this is the knower. 81. The soul has been called the doer of meritorious and (demeritorious) thought activities (from practical standpoint); but it is really) not the doer (of them) by any means whatsoever. He who knows (this) is the (right) knower. 82. And the knower (Himself) certainly knowing material Karmas of many kinds neither modifies, nor assimilates, nor is transformed into the form of non-self substance. , 83. And certainly the knower, knowing his own thought activity of many kinds, neither modifies, nor assimilates, nor is transformed into the non-self sabstance. 84. And certainly the knower, knowing infinite (kinds) of fruition of material Karmas, neither modifies, nor assimilates, nor is transformed into the non-substance, 85. Similarly matter substance also is shaped into its own modifications (it) neither assimilates, nor is transferred into the forms of any other substance. 86. Material molecules are transformed into Karmas (or 8 kinds) by reason of the (mundane) sool's thought activity šimilarly the (mundane) soul is also transformed into its impure thought activity) by reason of (operation of) Karmic matter. 87. The soul never produces the attributes of Karmic matter , similarly the Karmas (never produce the attributes of the soul and the modifications of these two, know each one to be the auxiliary of the other, 38. For this reason, really the soul is the doer (of its modifications) by its own thought activity. And is not the doer of all the modifications caused by Karmic matter?

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