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CHAPTER IX STOPPAGE AND SHEDDING OF KARMA Bondage has been described. The next thing to be explained is stoppage of karmas.
Tafatet: fat: Asravanirodhaḥ samvaraḥ
. (1) 1. The obstruction of influx is stoppage (samvara).
Influx which is the cause of taking in new karmic matter has been explained. The obstruction of the inflow of karmic matter is called stoppage (sainvara). It is of two kinds, bhāva samvara and dravya samvara. The cessation of activities that lead to transmigration is psychic stoppage (bhāva saivara). When these activities are checked, the taking in of karmic matter is cut off or interrupted. This is material stoppage (dravya samvara).
Now this is investigated. What karmas are stopped in what stages of the self's spiritual development ?1 The self, that is subjugated by the karma which causes false belief, is the Misbeliever' (mithyādęsti). That karma, which flows into the soul chiefly on account of false belief, is cut off in the case of the rest. Hence stoppage of that karma prevails in the beings from the second stage of spiritual development, namely ‘Downfall' (sāsādanasamyagdęsti) onwards. What is it? It is of sixteen kinds--karmas causing wrong belief, neuter sex, infernal lifetime, infernal state of existence, birth as a one
sensed being, birth as a two-sensed being, birth as a three: *sepsęd: being, birth as a four-sensed being, unsymmetrical body, quite a weak joining of the bodily structure, transmigrating
1 The souls are divided into fourteen classes or spiritual stages. The fourteen spiritual stages are 'Delusion', 'Downfall', 'Mixed', 'Vawless Right Belief', Partial Vow', 'Imperfect Vow', 'Perfect Vow', 'New Thought-Activity, *Advanced Thought-Activity', 'Slightest Delusion', 'Subsided Delusion', 'Delusionless', 'Vibratory Omniscient Conqueror', and 'Non-Vibratory Omniscient'. At the end of the fourteenth spiritual stage, the soul becomes liberated (siddha).
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