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Chapter:-2 Collection of Examples
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O friend! This monk, due to his qualities, is being established by me in your care. Therefore, he should be protected by you, like me, O great sage! ||32||
Just as I established the Goṣṭhamāhila in the care of Śrīphalgurakṣita, so too, you should act in the same way, especially. ||33||
Having said this and established him, those Śrīāryarakṣitas, who had been instructed in the right way of eating, went to heaven. ||34||
Having heard about the Śrīāryarakṣita teachers who had gone to heaven, Goṣṭhamāhila also went quickly to Daśapura. ||35||
He asked all the monks, "Who is this disciple, who has been placed in your care by the Sūris?" ||36||
Then, getting up, they pointed out the Kumbhadṛṣṭānta to him and said, "He is Śrīmadurbalikāpuṣpmitrā, a Sūri." ||37||
Hearing this, Goṣṭhamāhila, who had been praised by all the virtuous ones, was told, "Stay here," but he unwillingly went outside. ||38||
Standing separately near the previous shelter, he began to teach the ignorant, with the intention of converting them. ||39||
He wished to convert them, but he did not want to convert anyone else. Then, he searched for a flaw in the Sūris every day. ||40||
And those Sūris, named Puṣpmitrā, also spoke about the strength of the meaning, the essence of the scriptures, to all the sages. ||41||
The great sages said, "Listen to the meaning in the presence of the Sūris." Then, Goṣṭhamāhila, who had been praised, spoke. ||42||
O great intellect! You are the ones who have heard the scriptures, so accept all of them. ||43||
Previously, the Sūris taught the eighth doctrine, called Karmapravāda, to the infertile and other virtuous ones. ||44||
At that time, the infertile one, thinking about the infertile one, contemplated the threefold nature of karma-bondage. That is as follows: ||45||
Karma is bound by living beings, bound, touched, and removed. Bound karma is like a needle, wrapped in thread. ||46||
Touched karma is like needles, which are attached to a piece of cloth. Removed karma is like needles, which have become one with the hot iron. ||47||
In the past, the soul, due to the influence of attachment, aversion, and delusion, was bound by karma, such as knowledge-obscuring karma, in all its aspects. ||48||
It does the same thing, touching karma, due to the increase of its influence. Due to the influence of the contaminated, it does removed karma. ||49||
Bound karma is destroyed by means such as condemnation, etc. Touched karma is removed by means of atonement. ||50||
Removed karma, which is strongly bound by living beings, is known only at the time of its arising, and not otherwise. ||51||
Seeing him, Goṣṭhamāhila said, "This is not the way. We have not heard this from our teachers." ||52||
If karma were bound, touched, and removed by the soul, then how could there be liberation for it, due to its separate nature? ||53||
Then, Goṣṭhamāhila, who was skilled in reasoning, said, "How then did the