Sunday, January 28, 2024

Seventeen Questions…14

 

36 Rebuttal of certain arguments posed in counter question 3

The rival group organises the arrangement of each deed based  upon the external materials, then in such a state the objection of siddhas becoming worldly again becomes possible. In reply the rival group stated that Siddhas do not have conjunction of karmas and ragas etc. form manifestation hence Siddhas cannot become worldly. However when rival group does not accept characteristics of Nishchaya Upadan and accepts generation of deed on the basis of external materials, then this too should be accepted that in Siddhas Dravya shakti form Upadan capability is present only, hence with its nimitta and conjunction of karmas, the siddhas would need to become worldly again.

The rival group enquires that’ if manifestation at every samaya occurs in well established order then why do you make resolution to carry out a deed in the mind?’ The answer is that making resolution is also a predefined deed, which is carried out in the presence of external-internal materials.

Due to manifestation in raga-dwesha form the soul undergoes sankalpa-vikalpa ( resolution- analytical) activity as a rule. By accepting it as sequential order form the topic of ekant Niyativad does not arise but anekant form illumination  is seen there- such decision should be taken.

The form of Anekant is to highlight opposite dharma partners in one Dravya but rival group wishes to use it to imply that the true reason of a deed exists in upadan as well as nimitta. But Anekant has its own limits.

37-39 According to Karma shastra also all deeds are Kram Niyat only

If Udwelana ( dissipation) of Samyaktva and Samyak Mithayva is destined to occur in Mithyatva gunasthana as a rule then can it occur in another gunasthana with the aid of external materials? If not, then it should be accepted that every event occurs by own capable Upadan with nimitta of external materials in swa-kaal only. With the attainment of  place and capability destined for them to occur, then only the deeds of karmas are carried out. This only is Niyati.

In Mithyatva gunasthana only Udeerana (dissipation) of Mithyatva occurs and with attainment of Vedak Samyaktva only udeerana of samyaktva occurs. These are also rules. That only is swa-kaal for udeerana to occur.

In the last samaya of Sookshma Samparaya gunasthana, the manifestation is one only but there how many differentness are seen in the duration, intensity bondages of gyanavarana etc. karmas. From these it can be inferred that for all deeds the internal-external materials are predestined. The manifestation of every substance occurs independent of external reasons. Therefore external materials which are nimitta for several deeds which may be one or many , the deed occurs in accordance with Upadan independent of external materials. The same is written in Harivansh Purana- soul does karma by himself, himself he enjoys its fruition, himself he traverses the world and himself he attains salvation.

We ask the rival group that in which Agam it has been written that Dravya form Upadan having  immediate previous paryaya has different capabilities and out of them depending upon  which capability the suitable external materials are available, the deed is carried out accordingly. Is this not self imagined theorem?

All the karta-karma form narration pertaining to one Dravya is real while by describing one Dravya as karta for another Dravya, whatever is narrated, that is Upacharita being asadbhoot vyavahara form.

Towards upadan, in generating its predestined activity whatever external material functions as supportive nimitta from aspect of vyavahara, it is called as Udaseen nimitta and whatever external material functions as Karta nimitta or karan nimitta from aspect of Vyavahara, it is called Prerak or Prayojak or Nirvartak nimitta. Hence two divisions are created in external materials of the form of Prerak nimitta or Udaseen Nimitta according to Agam. However rival group wants to treat them in same category of Prerak Nimitta since their hypothesis involves deed carried out by  Upadan to be decided by nimitta only.

When we describe  the Maran(death) with non reduction of Nishek sthiti of Ayu Karma as Kaal Maran while with reduction of Nishek Sthiti as Akaal Maran, then both statements being dependent upon others, come in the category of Vyavahara naya. However when from aspect of self dependent Upadan we call the expenditure of previous paryaya as Maran then these two differences of kaal maran and akaal maran do not remain and they can merely be called as swa-kaal-maran only. Hence being self dependent, it comes in the category of Nishchaya naya. The rival group has called soul as immortal and they have used Param Paarinamik bhava form Nishchaya nay which is not applicable here. Here Nishchaya naya implies dependence on own soul while Vyavahara implies dependence upon others.

40 Divya Dwani etc. all events occur in Niyat Kram only

After attainment of Keval Gyan, the non materialising of divine speech immediately is natural only. Due to non availability of Ganendra, it did not so happen- it is merely a Vyavahara statement only, which denotes the conjunction of external material.

The Nishchaya statement would be this only that the kaal at which a deed occurs, it is destined for that kaal only- such is the nature of manifestation of substance. Dravya equipped with immediate previous paryaya is called as Upadan. With this rule, the moment divine speech materialised, in the previous moment only the Bhasha Vargana became capable Upadan for the same. Keval Gyan is not Upadan for divine speech, it is just nimitta only like Ganendra.

When time for materialising of divine speech occurred then in  conjunction with Ganadhar, the Keval gyan became nimitta for its dispersion.

41 The time of Karma Nirjara and Salvation  is Niyat only and not Aniyat

The rival group says that the time of Karma Nirjara is not Niyat quoting Tattvartha Vartik but that statement talks about the irregularity of time of Karma Nirjara from aspect of several jivas. Some jivas attain salvation by Karma Nirjara  in numerable kaal and some jivas attain salvation after innumerable kaal. It is not with respect to one jiva. From aspect of one jiva, depending upon his Niyat kaal of Karma Nirjara he attains salvation.

Dhavala 14/143- Always the past kaal is infinitesimal of all jivas quantity, otherwise it raises the issue of all jivas being absent.

Siddha jivas are always innumerable part of past kaal since there is rule of jivas attaining Moksha in 6 months period.

In how much period, how many jivas attain samyaktva and how many jivas attain benefit of salvation in how much period; these are predefined rules. Hence the one whose time has come for attainment of Samyak darshan, he attains at that time only and the one whose time has come for attainment of Moksha, he attains Salvation at that time only. The arrangement of all Gati-Agati pertaining to all Jivas is predefined pertaining to everyone’s Upadan. Each deed is performed in accordance with it.

In spite of Mohaniya karma becoming ksheen at the first moment ( first samaya of 12th gunasthana) , the capability of destruction of Gyanavarana has been said to  occur at the last moment of Ksheen Kashaya gunasthana, in the same way the capability of destruction of all remaining karmas has been believed to happen at the last moment of Ayogi Jina.

All this makes clear that Upadan reason for generation of Keval Gyan of every soul occurs  at the last moment of 12th and not the first moment of the same.

The rival group has tried to establish that the Upadan cause was present earlier itself and the nimittas became available at that moment which is not correct.

42. The fruition of karmas is predestined only

The rival group has tried to tell that if fruition of karmas is there but if suitable external materials are not present , then jiva does not have to undergo their fruition or he attains fruits of opposite nature.

For proving the above statement, they have written that ‘ The fruition of Asata Vedaniya karma of Arihant Bhagwan occurs in Sata form. In narak the fruition of sata occurs in asata form. In Deva Gati due to lack of painful resources the fruition of Asata is not painful.’

In Agam such a rule has been told as applicable to kevali Jina only. There are reasons for such a statement-

(1) Firstly Vedaniya karma harms jivas like Ghatia karmas, with the power of Mohaniya karma, hence amongst Ghatia Karmas, in the middle Vedaniya has been placed before Mohaniya karma. In the absence of Mohaniya karma, the Vedaniya karma is incapable of performing its activities of sukh-dukh form.

(2) In the first samaya of Kshapak shreni the intensity of Pap Prakritis becoming infinite times weaker, the intensity of Asata Vedaniya of Sayog Kevali becomes infinite times weaker than that of intensity of Sata Vedaniya which is bonded there. On account of Irya Path Asrava, the fruition of Sata Vedaniya is present at every moment hence in the fruition of Sata Vedaniya having infinite times intensity the fruition of Asata Vedaniya having infinite times weaker intensity gets merged. Therefore it has been stated that the fruition of Asata manifests in Sata form.

This is not right to say that Sata does not have intensity since there is absence of Kashaya. There, the intensity of Kashaya has been negated but not intensity itself. Since by accepting so, Sata would not have any role. In reality it should be understood that the bondage of Sata of Kevali Jina is infinite times that of the intensity of Asata  present.

In this way Agam accepts that for Kevali Jina the fruition of Asata manifests in Sata form but nowhere in Agam this has been stated that’ in the Narak the fruition of Sata takes place in Asata form’. Nor is this written that ‘ in Deva Gati since there are no painful resources, the fruition of Asata does not result in misery.’  This is mere imagination.

External resources are neither dukh form or sukh form. It depends upon the different situations of different jivas that which one functions as nimitta for dukh and which one as nimitta for sukh.

With such kind of imaginations the entire cause-effect tradition becomes null and void and further with fruition of which karma which deed would be performed – without such rule the entire Karmik organisation becomes haphazard.

By nature this jiva is knower-seer only. In manifestation also it has to become  knower-seer. But at one end if he keeps believing the vikalpas of accumulation as venerable and other end he keeps telling that I am proceeding on the path to become knower-seer- this would be considered as mockery  of Moksha marg. If internally such bhavas exist then such marg should be practiced also.

Acharya Amritchandra Kalash 23- O brother! By any means with lots of pain or even at the cost of life, being curious and becoming neighbour of body etc. insentient Dravya for one Muhurta only, experience the soul due to which upon observing own soul in glorious state different from all other dravyas , you shall forgo the moha of oneness with corporeal pudgala Dravya immediately.

The rival group writes that when you are believer of the Siddhant that ‘ all the paryayas of all dravyas occur in predestined order only, or all the events occur in swa-kaal only ‘ then what is usage of five Samavaya for generation of event in your view?

The answer is that with the conjunction of five, in the next samaya the deed is performed as per Upadan hence  these five have been accepted to be the cause. For example when Mud in the form of kushool paryaya generates the paryaya of pot, then in that mud has continuity. But whenever mud would become pot, it would do so after kushool paryaya only. From this lamp, dish etc. form paryayas cannot be generated in all the three periods of time. Hence in kushool paryaya, being cause for the pot is accepted. At the time of generation of pot paryaya from  kushool paryaya, mud by itself would modify into pot, hence the presence of veerya or purushartha is accepted. At the time of generation of pot paryaya from kushool paryaya, the predestined kriya form potter etc. have been accepted as the cause . Further the generation of pot paryaya from mud would occur at predestined kaal only hence predestined kaal also is accepted as cause. In this way with the samvaya of the above described five the deed gets done. Hence all five are accepted as causal.

Pandit Kailash Chandra Shastry has written in Bhavartha for Kartikeya Anupreksha 321-322-

“ Samyak Drishti knows that dravya, kshetra, kaal, bhava of each paryaya is predestined. The paryaya which is supposed to manifest for the substance at whichever time, in whichever kshetra, that only manifests and no one can prevent it. It has not become predestined because it is known by Omniscient, but since it is predestined, he has known it in that form. From previous paryaya, predestined next paryaya only gets generated. Otherwise without Sthas paryaya of mud, the pot paryaya would get generated. Some people believing it to be Niyativad, with that fear, they accept Dravya, kshetra, bhava to be Niyat but do not accept kaal as Niyat. They think that by believing kaal to be Niyat the purushartha would go waste. But with Dravya. kshetra, bhava being Niyat the Kaal cannot be Aniyat. If kaal becomes Aniyat then kaal labdhi would not be  any thing. In such a case in spite of more than Ardha Pudgala paravartan kaal remaining balance for worldly transmigration, one would attain Samyaktva and without spending that kaal one would attain salvation. But all this is against Agam hence kaal also should be accepted. Coming to the worry pertaining to absence of purushartha in this, so just by completing a deed before time does not constitute the meaningfulness of purushartha. But completing the job on time only is applicability of purushartha. The wheat gets ripened on time only, so whether the purushartha of farmer would be called a waste? Hence the time at which a paryaya of a Dravya has to happen, it would surely manifest. Knowing this the Samyak Drishti does not engage in sorrow in calamity, or happiness in wealth, nor does he beg Devi-Devatas for attainment of same.

In this way all the paryayas of all dravyas occur in Niyat Kram only and do not manifest in Aniyat Kram in all the three periods of time.

Continued…..

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