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Bhagavai 7:6:107-112 goyamā! pāņāivāena jāva micchādamsanasallenam--evam khalu goyamā! jīvānam kakkasaveyanijjā kammā kajjamti. How do the souls, O Lord! perpetrate (bind) karmas that are harsh to experience? Gautama! (they perpetrate such karma) on account of perpetrating injury to life ...... up to the thorn of deluded world-view (the eighteen occasions for sinful activity). Thus indeed, O Gautama! the souls perpetrate (bind) karmas,
that are harsh to experience. 7.109 atthi nam bhamte! neraiyānam kakkasaveyanijjā kammā kajjamti?
evam ceva. evam jāva vemāniyānam. Do the infernals, O Lord! perpetrate (bind) karmas that are harsh to experience?
Yes, there are. The description holds good up to the Empyrean gods. 7.110 atthi nam bhamte! jīvānam akkakkasaveyanijjā kammā kajjamti?
hamtā atthi. Do the souls, O Lord! perpetrate karmas that are soft to experience?
Yes, they do. 7.111 kahannam bhamte! jīvānam akakkasaveyanijjā kammü kajjamti?
goyama! pāņäivāyaveramaņeņam jāva pariggahaveramanenam, kohavivegenam jäva micchadamsaņasullavivegenam-evam khalu goyamä! jīvānam akakkasaveyanijjā kammā kajjamti. How do the souls, O Lord! perpetrate (bind) karmas that are soft to experience? Gautama! (they perpetrate (bind) karmas that are soft to experience) on account of abstaining from injury to life ..... up to abstaining from acquiring possession, shunning (i.e., abstaining from) anger ...... up to shunning (i.e., abstaining from) the thorn of deluded world-view. Thus indeed, O Gautama!
the souls perpetrate (bind) karmas that are soft to experience. 7.112 atthi ņam bhamte! neraiyānam akakkasaveyanijjā kammā kajjamti?
no inatthe samatthe, evam jāva vemāniyāṇam, navaram-manussānam jahā jīvānam. Do the infernals, O Lord! perpetrate karmas that are soft to experience? This is not possible. In the same way ...... up to the Empyrean gods. However about the humans the description is like that of the souls in general.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 107-112
In the present dialogue, karma has been divided into two classes viz, 'what is
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