Sunday, January 2, 2022

Panchastikaya Sangrah…..05

 

Gatha 51-52: The colour-taste-smell-touch being described of the Paramanu manifest without being different from Dravya, hence they describe just the differentness by means of specifics. (By nature they are not different). In the same way the darshan-gyan of jiva are one with jiva and they just describe the differentness by description  but not by nature.

The example of Paramanu is quoted and applied to Jiva to describe the sameness of dravya and qualities.

Although colour-taste-smell-touch describe the specifics of Paramanu being different in terms of name, numbers etc. but they have the same Pradesh and are not different from Paramanu. In the same way the soul also has gyan-darshan which occupy the same Pradesh as that of the soul and in spite of being different in terms of name, numbers etc. they are same from aspect of dravya nature.

Gatha 53: From aspect of Paarinamik Bhava, Jivas are beginningless-endless. From aspect of three bhavas Jivas are with beginning and end. From aspect of Kshayik Bhava they are with beginning and endless. From aspect of existence Jivas are infinite only. They have five primary qualities.

From the aspect of Nishchaya, Jivas are not doer of other’s bhavas, and they are doer of their own bhavas. Jivas have five primary bhavas which are described here as qualities. These are Audayik, Aupashamik, Kshayopashamik, Kshayik and Paarinamik.

From aspect of Paarinamik bhava, jivas are beginningless and endless. From aspect of Audayik, Aupashamik and Kshayopashamik bhavas, jivas are with beginning and end. From aspect of Kshayik bhava they are with beginning and endless.

The Kshayik bhavas are generated with the destruction of karmas hence they are endless. Therefore it is said that Jivas are endless from aspect of Kshayik bhavas.

Although Jiva is pure by nature, from aspect of Vyavahara naya, due to karma bondage since eternal times, he manifests into Audayik bhavas which are with beginning and end. On attainment of Samyak darshan, jiva also manifests in the bhavas of Aupashamik, Kshayopashamik nature which are with beginning and end.

In this way the jivas manifest in the five primary forms.

Gatha 54: In this way Jivas have destruction of existent and generation of non-existent- thus it has been told by Jinavaras. Although it contradicts Gatha 19th , still it is non-contradictory.

This is a negation of any contradiction on account of bhavas having beginning and end , as well as beginningless and endless.

Here from aspect of Audayik bhava, it has been told that in the form of Manushya etc. bhava form, the destruction of existent occurs while in the form of Deva etc. bhava form, the non-existent is generated. Although it appears to contradict Gatha 19, but in reality it is not so. From aspect of Dravyarthika naya, the Jiva does not have destruction of existent nor generation of non-existent. For the same Jiva, from the aspect of Paryayarthika naya, there is destruction of existent and generation of non-existent.

Therefore the beginning and end have been described from aspect of Paryaya while beginningless and endless have been described from aspect of Dravya. In this manner Jiva has beginning- ending and at the same time beginningless-endless nature and there is no contradiction.

Gatha 55: Narak, Tiryanch, Manushya and Deva are states of Naam Karma which undergo destruction of existent and generation of non-existent.

Here the Nimitta reason for the destruction of existent and generation of non-existent for the Jiva has been described.

Just as in a sea there is no destruction of existent and generation of non-existent from aspect of sea, still the strong winds blowing across cause generation of non-existent wave as well as destruction of existent wave. In the same way, for the Jiva there is no destruction of existent and generation of non-existent from aspect of Jiva. However the same jiva undergoes generation in the form of Deva paryaya and destruction in the form of Manushya paryaya sequentially on account of nimitta of Naam karma fruition.

Gatha 56: Jiva manifests in the form of five kind of bhavas which can be divided into several kinds. These are accompanied with Udai, Upasham, Kshaya, Kshayopasham and Parinam respectively.

This is a description of five kinds of Bhavas of Jiva.

The manifestation of karmas in the form of fruition is Udai and subsidence is Upasham. The fruition and subsidence together is Kshayopasham. Total destruction is Kshaya. Manifestation in the form of own nature is Parinam and the corresponding bhava is called Paarinamik bhava. The manifestation of jiva in association with Karma Udai is Audayik bhava, Karma Upasham is Aupashamik bhava, Karma Kashayopasham is Kshayopashamik Bhava, Karma Kshaya is Kshayik bhava. Thus out of five bhavas, the karma are nimitta for four of them and one bhava is due to own nature.

Gatha 57: Experiencing the fruition of karma, in whichever bhava form jiva manifests, he is the doer of that bhava – this has been ordained in jina order.

This is a statement of ownership of the Audayik etc. form bhavas of Jiva.

Jiva experiences the dravya karma from the aspect of Vyavahara naya and that is said to be nimitta  for  the Jiva bhavas being experienced. That Dravya karma is nimitta only and the Jiva manifests into bhava form karma on his own. Therefore whichever bhava the jiva manifests in, he is the doer of that bhava.

Gatha 58: Without fruition of karma, Jiva does not manifest into Udai, Upasham, Kshayik or Kshayopashamik bhavas, hence these four kinds of bhavas are caused by Karmas.

Here the Dravya karmas have been described to be doer of the Audayik etc. form bhavas in the form of nimitta.

Looking from one aspect – Without the fruition of Dravya karmas, the Jiva does not manifest into bhavas of Udai-Upasham and Kshaya-Kshayopasham. Hence these bhavas are cause by karmas. Paarinamik bhavas are beginningless-endless natural uninfluenced by karmas.

Looking from another aspect- The Udai, Upasham, Kshaya and Kshayopasham are four states of dravya karma only and these are not states of Jiva in manifesting form. Therefore these Udai etc. form nimitta for the Bhavas of the soul and for this reason dravya karma is said to be doer of bhavas of soul from aspect of Vyavahara naya.

Gatha 59: If the Bhavas of Jiva be caused by Karmas, then soul should be doer of Dravya karmas. How can that be? Since soul does not do anything other than its own bhavas.

This presents one side of the argument in favour of karmas being  responsible for the bhavas of the Jiva.

If Audayik etc. form bhavas of Jiva are caused by Karmas then it establishes Jiva to be non-doer of those Audayik etc. form Jiva bhavas. But the inactive nature of Jiva is not acceptable. Hence it should imply that Jiva should be doer of Dravya karma. But this too is not possible. Since from aspect of Nishchaya naya, soul does not do anything other than its own bhava.

Gatha 60: Karma is nimitta for the bhava of Jiva and Jiva bhava is nimitta for the karma. In reality both are not doer of each other. This is also not true that they do not do anything.

This is the answer for the argument put forth in previous gatha.

From the aspect of Vyavahara, karma is doer of the Jiva bhava as nimitta and Jiva bhava is doer of karma also. From aspect of Nishchaya naya neither karmas are doer of Jiva bhavas nor Jiva bhava are doer of karmas. Both of them (Jiva bhava and dravya karma) are not doer is also not true. Since from aspect of Nishchaya Jiva is doer of Jiva bhavas and Karma (pudgala) is doer of karma manifestations.

Gatha 61: Manifesting in the form of own nature (pure or impure) soul is doer of own bhava in reality but not of pudgala karmas; this has been told by Jinas.

From the aspect of Nishchaya Jiva is doer of his own bhavas but not of pudgala karmas. This is so declared in Agam.

Gatha 62: Karmas also manifest in their own form by their nature. In the same way the Jivas also manifest in the form of Audayik etc. form karma bhavas on their  own.

From aspect of Nishchaya naya, Karmas and Jivas are doer of their own forms.

In reality Karmas manifests in six kind of predicates forms as follows:

(1)  As doer of pudgala matter manifesting as karta .

(2)  As deed of pudgala matter manifesting as karma.

(3)  As the means (karan)  by which act is carried out.

(4)  As the objective (Sampradan) for which act is done.

(5)  As the ablative case (Apadan) from which the act is carried out.

(6)  As the substratum (adhikaran) on which the act is performed.

Here karmas themselves have manifested in all the six predicates form without requirements of any other predicate.

In the same way Jivas also manifest in all the six predicates form as follows:

(1)  As doer of bhava in the form of soul dravya as Karta.

(2)  As deed of bhava in the form of karma.

(3)  As means (karan) by which bhava is carried out.

(4)  As objective (Sampradan) for whom the bhava is carried out.

(5)  As ablative case (Apadan) from which bhava was generated.

(6)  As substratum (Adhikaran) on which bhava was performed.

In this way Jiva himself manifests in the six predicate forms without support of any other predicate. Therefore from aspect of Nishchaya naya, Jiva is not doer of karma nor Karmas are doer of Jiva. This establishes the total independence of pudgala karmas and jivas in their own manifestations and none is responsible for the other.

Gatha 63: If Karma performs as doer of karma and soul performs  as doer of soul then why should karma give fruition for the soul and why should soul undergo the result of fruition?

If the Karma and Jiva are independent and not doer of each other then why should they undergo fruition of each other? This question is raised as the first side of the argument.

The argument is as follows:

As per scripture Jiva experiences the fruition of karmas. Now if Jiva does not do karmas then why should karmas give fruition to Jiva and why should Jiva suffer the fruition of karmas not carried out by him? As told in previous gatha that jiva is doer of jiva and karma is doer of karma then it does not justify the jiva experiencing fruition of karmas.

This is replied in the next gathas:

Gatha 64 : The Lok is densely packed everywhere with different kind of infinitely infinite sookshma and badar pudgala kayas in a specific manner.

Here it is told that the entire Lok is packed with pudgalas matter  capable of manifesting in karma form, just like a box packed with fine powder. Hence wherever the soul is present, these are existent without being fetched from anywhere.

Gatha 65: Soul manifests in Moha, Raga, Dwesha form bhavas on his own then the pudgala present in that location manifest into karma bhava form on their own sharing the location of jiva.

Without anybody carrying out anything, how do the karmas get generated is described here.

In whichever place and time, the soul manifests in ashuddha bhavas form, the karmana vargana form pudgala matter present in that location and in that time, on its own by its own bhavas, manifest into karma form within the Pradesh of the Jiva sharing the same location in specific manner.

In this way without effort of the Jiva, the pudgala matter manifest into karma form on its own.

Gatha 66: Just as Pudgala dravya is seen to have several kinds of bulk formations without anyone causing it, in the same way the many formations of karmas should be known to be uncreated by anyone.

The many formations of karmas are not created by anyone- this has been told here.

Just as with the availability of suitable illumination of sun-moon, the evening-clouds-rainbow-sky etc. forms of pudgala matter formations are generated without someone creating it on their own, in the same way with the availability of suitable manifestation of Jiva, Gyanavarana etc. several kind of karmas also get generated without presence of a creator.

Thus the variety of karmas manifestations into Prakriti (nature)-Pradesh-Sthiti (duration)-Anubhag (intensity) forms is also caused by pudgala and not Jiva.

Gatha 67: Jiva and PudgalaKaya are bonded together in a specific manner of sharing space. After completion of duration they separate with PudgalaKaya manifesting into happiness-unhappiness form and Jivas experience their fruition.

From aspect of Nishchaya, the Jiva and Karmas manifest in their own forms on their own, even so from aspect of Vyavahara naya, karma provides fruition to jiva and Jiva suffers it; this is also correct.

Soul space of Jiva becomes oily on account of manifesting in Moha, Raga,Dwesha form while pudgala skandh is oily by nature, therefore they join together like two molecule bond and in this manner they remain bonded together sharing the same space. Now when their duration is complete, they shed away giving the fruition in following manner:

From aspect of Nishchaya naya- The pudgala kaya manifest  on fruition in nimitta form for the happiness-unhappiness form soul manifestations. Thus Jiva experiences the happiness-unhappiness in the presence of nimitta of dravya karma form fruition.

From the aspect of Vyavahara naya- The pudgala kaya manifest on fruition in nimitta form for the availability of suitable-unsuitable subjects of enjoyments which provide happiness-unhappiness to the Jiva in the presence of nimitta of dravya karma form fruition.  

Gatha 68: Therefore Dravya karma is doer of own bhava from  aspect of nishchaya and doer of jiva bhava from aspect of Vyavahara. However the enjoyer is Jiva alone of the karma fruition being conscious form.

This is the conclusion of the definitions of doing and enjoying functions.

From the previous gatha, it is concluded that karmas are doer of themselves from aspect of Nishchaya and doer of Jiva bhava from aspect of Vyavahara. Jiva also is doer of own bhava from aspect of Nishchaya and doer of karma from aspect of Vyavahara.

Here from both aspects karmas are shown to be doer but not enjoyer from single aspect. Why? Since karmas do not have capability of consciousness to experience the happiness-unhappiness form manifestations. Therefore Jivas only, on account of consciousness have been described as enjoyer  of soul manifestations in happiness-unhappiness form in certain aspect or enjoyer of suitable-unsuitable subjects in another aspect.

Continued…..

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