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Kammano bamdha -vivega-padam
71.
Bondage and Riddance of Karma Particles
71.
Egaya gunasamiyassa riyato kayas amphāsamaņucinnā egatiyā pānā uddāyamti.
It may so happen that some living beings get injured or (even) killed by coming in touch with the body of a (perfectly) vigilant muni (i. e. an appramatta muni, having attained a gumasthana (i. e. a stage of spiritual development) from seventh to thirteenth) while doing some activity.
७२. इहलोग- वेयण - वेज्जावडियं ।
72.
Ihaloga-veyana-vejjāvaḍiyam.
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72. (If any living being gets injured or killed inadvertently by the touch of the body of any pramatta muni, (not perfectly vigilant and occupant of the sixth gunasthana) who, however, otherwise is carrying on his operations in accordance with the Right Deportment), the muni incurs bondage of (only that karma, which comes to rise in his present life.
ANNOTATIONS 71-72. The bondage of karma particles incurred due to killing of living beings is not always identical. It depends upon the intensity of passions and one's mental
state.
If a living being is killed by coming in contact with the body,
(a) in the case of a muni who has attained the highest form of samadhi (i. e. profound meditation) or the sailesi stage (whose mind is rendered as staid, calm and immobile as a mountain), no karma-bondage is incurred;
(b) in the case of a vitaraga muni (i. e. one who is completely free from passions or attachment and aversion), but who has not withdrawn from the activities of mind, speech and body, the karma-bondage endures for two samayas (i. e. two time-points) only;
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