Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhyaprajnapti Sutra Part 02 Sthanakvasi

SR No.: 002903
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 654
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Book_English, Agam, Canon, Conduct, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

Page 127

$4141414141414141414141414141414141414141414 4141414141414141414141414
Elaboration In the aforesaid three aphorism (10 to 12) liability of involvement of an archer and the beings from whose bodies the bow and arrow have been made, in activities of violence at the time of shooting the arrow and its fall has been discussed.
When a person takes a bow and shoots an arrow harming and killing many living beings he is liable of involvement in all the five activities including pranatipatiki kriya (here kriya means act and consequence in terms of karmic bondage). The living beings from whose bodies the bow, arrow and other components have been made are also liable of involvement in all the five activities. This point raises a question-the bodies of those beings are life-less, the soul has taken rebirth at some other place, then can those souls be liable of involvement in the activities of the abandoned lifeless bodies ? If such liability is possible why the liberated souls should not be liable of involvement in activities through their abandoned bodies ?
The explanation given for this question is that the living beings from whose bodies the bows (etc.) are made were not detached from violence and other sinful activities. Because of this absence of detachment from sinful activities they are liable to such involvement. Siddhas (liberated souls) are not liable to such involvement because they are absolutely free of any attachment that causes bondage of karmas.
Another question is that as ascetics use their equipment, like asceticbroom, in their pious activities, like protection of creatures, the beings from whose bodies these equipment were made would acquire bondage of meritorious karmas. But this does not happen, why ? The answer is that bondage of meritorious karmas takes place only when the action is accompanied by prudence and noble intent. A life-less body does not have these feelings, therefore there is no such bondage.
When the arrow falls due to its weight, the beings from whose bodies it is made are liable to involvement in all the five activities because the bodies of those beings, in the form of arrow, are mainly involved in killing of beings. As the bow-string and other components are only instrumental and not directly involved in the act of killing they are liable to involvement in only four activities. The commentator (Vritti) has assigned this subject to the domain of faith. (Vritti, leaf 230)
पंचम शतक : छठा उद्देशक
( 91 )
Fifth Shatak : Sixth Lesson fi 41 41 414141414141414141414141414141454545454545454545454545455 456 457 454