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indulgence can be meritorious and result in auspicious bondage. All passionate activities are sinful. Therefore, it is the passions or sinful dispositions, if any, accompanying the meritorious activities and not the auspicious dispositions that can result in auspicious karmic bondage. Meritorious activities can come about only when the passions are on the wane. The waning of passions is said to be kṣāyopaśamik bhāva (destructo-subsidential volition), śubha bhāva (auspicious volition) and complete absence of passions is referred to as śuddha bhāva (pure spiritual volition). The auspicious volition results in the influx of auspicious karma.
It is a principle of the doctrine of karma that auspicious (meritorious) influx blocks the inauspicious (sinful) one and results in karmic stoppage. For example, when the influx of fourteen auspicious karmic subtypes such as of pleasurable feeling producing, high status giving, mobile body giving, obedience inducing, fame giving, etc., karma take place, influx of their fourteen inauspicious counterparts - painful feeling producing, low status giving, immobile body giving, disobedience inducing, infamy giving, etc., karma cannot take place. During the auspicious karmic influx the influx of corresponding inauspicious karma is automatically blocked. i.e.. the influx of auspicious karma automatically results in the stoppage of the corresponding inauspicious karma. Not only this, but the intensity and duration of the earlier bonded inauspicious karmic bondages also reduce at the same time. This is also accompanied by the sankramaṇa (conversion) of sinful types of karma into corresponding meritorious karma types. What we clearly and unequivocally mean here is that 1. Auspiciousness, 2. Auspicious karmic influx, and 3. Auspicious karma are respectively opposite of and destructive of 1. Inauspiciousness, 2. Inauspicious karmic influx, and 3. Inauspicious karma. Thus, they destroy the sins and destruction of sins eventually results in liberation.
It is true that positive non-violence in the form of activities like service, kindness, compassion, co-operation, helping, etc, results in
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| SR No. | 006917 |
| Book Title | Positive Non Violence |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Kanhaiyalal Lodha, Dalpatsingh Baya |
| Publisher | Prakrit Bharti Academy |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Total Pages | 344 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 5 MB |