Moksha Marg Prakashak

SR No.: 006760
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CHAPTER-III
are created. Out of them those which are created owing to rise of Punya (virtue) act as the cause of pleasure and those which are created owing to rise of Papa (vice) act as the cause of misery; so, it is a fallacy to believe happiness in these conditions. And this mundane being tries to make effort of removing the cause of misery and getting the cause of happiness; so, this effort is false. The real means is right belief, etc. In this context, for details, one should refer to the description given earlier under Vedaniya Karma. Because of similarity of causation of happiness and misery between Vedaniya and Name Karmas the description of their effectiveness should be known to be similar.
Misery caused by rise of Gotra-Karma and release from it
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Owing to the rise of Gotra karma (high and low status determining Karma) one gets birth in high or low family. There, on getting birth in family of high status, one considers himself to be high and on getting birth in a family of low status considers himself to be low. Since he does not know the means of change of birth in high or low family, he feels oneness with the family status obtained by him. But to consider oneself high or low with regard to the family status is fallacy. If someone of high family status indulges in mean activity then he becomes low and if someone belonging to low family status indulges in commendable activity then he becomes high. Owing to greed-passion, etc., many people belonging to high family status start doing the service of the people belonging to low family status.
After all, how long does the family statuts exist?
On termination of embodied form, the family status also changes; hence considering oneself high or low by birth in family of high-low status, the person of high status family is afraid of becoming low and one belonging to low status family is unhappy due to the lowness of the status obtained by him.
By attainment of right belief etc., not believing happinessunhappiness to arise due to high or low status, is the right means; and by the same means he attains such a supreme and the highest state of Siddha which never changes; then all miseries end and he becomes perfectly blissful.