Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
of anubhāga characterizing the good karmas is relatively larger while the quantity of anubhāga characterizing the evil karmas is relatively smaller. On the contrary, at the time of the intensity of the inauspicious yoga the quantity of anubhāga characterizing the evil karmas is relatively larger while the quantity of anubhāga characterizing the good karmas is relatively smaller. So keeping in view the relatively larger quantity of the anubhāga characterizing the good karmas caused by the auspicious yoga and the relatively larger quantity of the anubhāga characterizing evil karmas caused by the inauspicious yoga—that is to say, keeping in view what is predominent in the two cases—it has been maintained that the auspicious yoga is cause-of-bondage in the case of good karmas and inauspicious yoga cause-of-bondage in the case of evil karmas. The relatively smaller quantity of the anubhāga characterizing the evil karmas caused by the auspicious yoga and the relatively smaller quantity of the anubhāga characterizing the good karmas caused by the inauspicious yoga are here not taken into account; for just as in everyday intercourse so also in theoretical treatizes it is a rule that usage takes place on the basis of what is predominent'. 3-4.
Statement as to a Difference in the Result of Yoga Depending on a Difference in the Agent Concerned :
Yoga on the part of a soul possessed of kasāya or passion and yoga on the part of a soul devoid of kasāya are respectively asrava or cause-of-bondage in the case of sāmparāyika karmas and īryāpatha karma. 5.
The beings in whom there takes place a manifestation of the kasāya or passion like anger, greed etc. are those possessed of kasāya, the beings in whom it does not take place are those devoid of kasāya. All the souls situated in the gunasthānas first to
1. prādhānyena vyapadeśā bhavanti (that is, designations take place on the basis of predominance)—this is how the rule runs. For example, the village where there is a predominance or numerical superiority of Brahmins is called a Brahmins' village even if other castes reside in it as well.