Viyahapannatti 17.2.701

17.2.701

“Venerable Sir, the followers of other doctrines declare up to propound thus: ‘Truly, when one is engaged in injury to living beings, false speech, up to the dart of false belief, the jīva is one, and the individual soul (jīvātman) is another. When one is engaged in abstinence from injury to living beings up to abstinence from possessions, the discernment of anger up to the discernment of the dart of false belief, the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. When one is engaged in innate, instructional, practical, or natural [intellect], the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. When one is engaged in apprehension, inquiry, judgment, or retention, the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. When one is engaged in exertion, action, strength, energy, or virile prowess, the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. When one is engaged in the state of an inhabitant of hell, of an animal, of a human, or of a god, the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. When one is engaged in knowledge-obscuring up to obstructive [karma], the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another. Likewise in black lesyā up to white lesyā, in right worldview, false worldview, and mixed worldview; likewise in ocular intuition, non-ocular intuition, clairvoyant intuition, and omniscient intuition; in sensory cognition, scriptural cognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, and omniscience; in sensory ignorance, scriptural ignorance, and false clairvoyance; in the notion of food, notion of fear, notion of sex, and notion of possessions; likewise in the physical body, transformational body, translocational body, fiery body, and karmic body; likewise in mental activity, vocal activity, bodily activity, determinate cognitive application, and indeterminate cognitive application, the jīva is one, and the individual soul is another.’
How is this so, Venerable Sir?”
“Gautama, as to what those followers of other doctrines declare up to: those who have spoken thus have spoken falsely. But I, Gautama, declare up to propound thus: ‘Truly, when one is engaged in injury to living beings up to the dart of false belief, it is the very same jīva, the very same individual soul; up to when one is engaged in indeterminate cognitive application, it is the very same jīva, the very same individual soul.’”