Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

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Bhagavai 6:3:35-51
Bhāşya 1. Sūtras 35-51 The soul, with sexual disposition, free from sexual disposition
Until the beginning of the ninth stage of spiritual development, the soul is possessed of sexual disposition. In the last part of the ninth stage, it becomes free from such disposition. In that state which is devoid of sexual disposition up to the tenth stage, the soul may bind the knowledge-covering karma. After that, in the eleventh, the twelfth and the thirteenth stages, there is no bondage of knowledge-covering karma.' There is no binding of life-span-determining karma in the stages that followed the seventh stage. So the soul devoid of sexual disposition can not bind life-span-determining karma. The bondage of life-span-determining karma takes place only once in the whole life-span-determining. So, the binding of life-span-determining karma has been described as occurring only occasionally. The life-span-determining karma is bound at the time that is appropriate to it, it can not be bound at the time that is inappropriate. For the appropriate time of binding the life-span-determining karma, see Bhāsya on 5.59-61.
The binding of the knowledge-covering karma is possible only up to the ninth stage of spiritual development. If the soul (free from sexual disposition) which is in the ninth stage starts binding it, it would continue the same up to the tenth stage, but if it stops it there, then it is not possible in the stages that are higher. This is why the binding of knowledge-covering karma has been characterised as taking place in case of some and impossible in others. The restrained and the unrestrained soul
The soul that is neither restrained, nor unrestrained, nor restrained-cum-unrestrained is the liberated one, which has no cause for binding any karma. So ipso facto, there is no bondage of knowledge-covering karma. The description of the bondage of six types of karma, viz., intuition-covering kurma, etc. is exactly the same as that of knowledge-covering karma. So far as the binding of life-spandetermining karma is concerned, the souls that are restrained, unrestrained or restrained-cum-unrestrained bind occasionally, but those who are neither restrained, nor unrestrained nor restrained-cum-unrestrained in one word, the liberated souls) never bind it. The soul, with enlightened world-view
There are two types of soul, with enlightened world-view: those that are with attachment and those that are without attachment. The former bind knowledge-covering karma, the latter do not. The soul, possessed of mind etc.
Among the souls, possessed of mind, those that are without attachment do not bind knowledge-covering karma, but those who are with attachment do bind. The souls that are neither with mind nor without mind are kevali and siddha. They do not bind knowledge-covering karma. The souls with mind as well as the souls without mind bind sensation-producing karma. Among the kevalī, the souls with activity