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

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________________ (43) according to thy teaching, because as has been said (above) material Karma by itself desires material Karma. 364. The Prakriti of Karma destroys another, and is destroyed by another. It is in this sense that Parghata Nama (Karma) is described. 365. Then no sonl whatsoever is the killer, according to thy teaching, because the material Karma itself, as said above, destroys the material Karma. 366. Thus if any Jain ascetics propounded, like this, the Sankhya teaching, (then) according to them, the material Karma only is active, and all the souls non-active,' 367. Or if thou holdest "my soul causes itself" thy saying this also is perverse thinking. 368. In the scriptures, the soul is said to be eternal and having innumerable spatial units and that soul is never capable of causing itself to be less or more. 369. Know the souls own nature, from the point of view of) expansion, to be co-extensive with the universe. How does thou say that this substance is more or less than that? 370. The knowing substance exists with its knowing nature. In this view, the soul never causes (creates) the soul from itself. 371. There is no belief, knowledge, or conduct whatsoever in unconscious objects of senses. Therefore what does the conscious soul destroy in those sense objects ? 372. There is no belief, knowledge or conduct whatsoever in the unconscious matter of Karmas therefore what does the conscious soul, destroy in those Karmas ? 373. There is no belief, knowledge (or) conduct what

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