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Chapter 1 - Sutra 1426
"R69 Upghat" means to regard knowledge as ignorance and to intend to destroy it. This is the difference between the two. [11]
3 Seven types of pain:
1. Suffering caused by external or internal causes, that is "duḥkha."
2. The grief or sorrow that arises when a relationship with benefactors is broken, that is "śoka."
3. The intense distress caused by the mind becoming polluted due to humiliation, that is "tāpa."
4. Weeping with a choked voice while shedding tears, that is "ākrandana."
5. Taking life, that is "vadh."
6. The sorrowful wailing that arises from remembering the virtues of an absent individual, that is "paridevana."
The aforementioned duḥkha and others like it, such as taḍana and tarjana, when produced within oneself or in others, or in both, become the cause for bondage of asatvedaniya karma for the one who generates them.
In regard to the previously mentioned causes of duḥkha, when such experiences arise in oneself or others, they result in the bondage of asatvedaniya karma; hence, austerities, fasting, vows, and other such rules, being sorrowful, should also be considered as sources of bondage of asatvedaniya. If they do, then why should one not abandon these vows and practices instead of following them?
- The aforementioned causes of duḥkha, when produced out of anger or other passions, lead to asrava; this does not happen merely in a general sense. A true renouncer or ascetic, irrespective of strict observances of hundreds of rules, does not become bound by asatvedaniya, for two reasons. The first is that a true...