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SAMAYASĀRA
COMMENTARY Others maintain that the concentration of mind on the idea of bondage is itself the cause of mokṣa or spiritual liberation.
his view also is wrong. By mere concentration of thought on bondage one cannot obtain liberation, just as concentrated attention on the shackles cannot get freedom for the person in chains.
What then is the cause of liberation? The answer is given below.
जह बंधे छित्तण य बंधणबद्धो उ पावइ विमोक्खं । तह बंधे छित्तूण य जीवो संपावइ विमोक्खं ।।२६२॥ jaha bañdhe chittūņa ja bamdhanabaddho u pāvai vimokkhan taha bandhe chittuna ya jivo sampāvai vimokkham (292) यथा बन्धछित्त्वा च बन्धनबद्धस्तु प्राप्नोति विमोक्षम् ।
तथा बन्धछित्त्वा च जीवः संप्राप्नोति विमोक्षम् ॥२९२॥
292. As one bound in shackles gets release only on breaking the shackles, so also the Self attains emancipation only by breaking (karmic) bondage.
How is this to be effected? The method is shown below.
बंधाणं च सहावं वियाणिओ अप्पणो सहावं च । बंधेसु जो विरजदि सो कम्मविमोक्खणं कुणइ ॥२६३॥ bandhāņań ca sahāvam viyāņio appaņo sahāvam ca bamdhesu jo virajjadi so kammavimokkhanam kunai (293) बन्धानां च स्वभावं विज्ञायात्मनः स्वभावं च । बन्धेषु यो विरज्यते स कर्मविमोक्षणं करोति ॥२९३॥
293. Whoever with a clear knowledge of the nature of karmic bondage as well as the nature of the Self, does not get attracted by bondage-that person obtains liberation from karmas.
COMMENTARY Thus the direct cause of liberation is determined to be the separation of the Self and the bondage from each other.
जीवो बंधोय तहा छिन्नति सलक्खणेहिं णियएहिं । पण्णाछेदणएण उ छिण्णा णाणत्तमावण्णा ॥२६४॥
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