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CHAPTER NINE
In the chapter eight there has been offered an account of the fundamental verity bandha or bondage; in the present chapter there is being offered an account of the fundamental verity samvara or protection, an account occurring at a place demanded by the serial order.
The Nature of samvara :
The cessation of asrava or inflow—that is called samvara or protection. 1.
The causes due to which a karma is bound down-that is called asrava; this definition of asrava has already been offered earlier. It is the cessation that is, prevention-of such an asrava that is called samvara. The 42 types of asrava have already been enumerated earlier; the extent to which a cessation of them takes place that exactly is the extent of the samvara attained. The graduated order of spiritual progress is due to the progress of the cessation-of-āsrava; hence the greater is the cessation-of-āsrava the higher is the guṇasthāna attained.
1. In a particular gunasthāna whatever causes-of-bondage out of the four-viz. mithyātva, avirati etc.—are operative and whatever be the karmatypes that are bound down as a result of them when these causes-ofbondage and the bondage of karma-types brought about by them cease to be there in a higher gunasthāna then it is this cessation that is samvara appropriate to this higher guṇasthāna. In other words, the absence of the āsrava and of the resultant bondage appropriate to a lower gunasthāna is what is samvara appropriate to a higher gunasthāna. For this see the bandha-prakarana of the second Karmagrantha and the fourth Karmagrantha (verses 51-58), also Sarvārthasiddhi on the present aphorism.
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