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Sutra 27 ]
Bondage, Merit, Demerit, Influx
cause of demeritorious bondage every moment. The application of mind, speech and body to perversity and the like or to violent activities and the like, is the external inauspicious operation which becomes the cause of demeritorious bondage only at the time of operation.
Although all the types of influx are the causes of karmic bondage, yet the attraction of the karmic matter is affected exclusively on account of the activity (yoga). The lengthening of the duration and the intensity of the fruition is, however, due to rise of the passion (kasāya).
२७. यंत्र शुभयोगस्तत्र नियमेन निर्जरा ।
शुभयोगः कर्मबन्धहेतुरिति न्यायादेव आस्रवभेदः किन्तु नियमत: अशुभकर्माणि त्रोटयतीति निर्जराकारणं तु समस्त्येव । उदयक्षयोपशमादिरूप - तादृक्कारणद्वयपूर्वकत्वात् शुभयोगः नानाद्रव्यसंभूतैकोषघेन जायमानशोषणपोषणवत् क्षयबन्धात्मक कार्यद्वयसम्पादनार्हः । तथा चागम:''वंदणणं भन्ते जीवे किं जणयइ ?' 'गोयमा ! वंदणएणं' नीया कम्मं खवेइ, उच्चागोयं कम्मं निबंधइ,' इत्यादि ।
विस्तरेच्छुभिरत्र भिक्षुरचित 'नवपदार्थ चौपई' निरीक्षणीया ।
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27. yatra subhayogastatra niyamena nirjarā.
subhayogaḥ karmabandhahetur iti nyāyād eva asravabhedaḥ, kintu niyamataḥ aśubhakarmāņi troṭayatīti nirjarākāraṇaṁ tu samastyeva. udayakṣayopaśamādirupa-tādṛkkāraṇadvayapūrvakatvāt śubhayogaḥ nānādravyasambhūtaikoṣadhena jāyamānaśoṣaṇapoṣaṇavat kṣayabandhātmaka-kāryadvayasampādanārhaḥ. tathā cāga_mah——
‘vandanaenar bhante jīve kim janayai ?' 'Goyamā ! vandanaenam niyā kammaṁ khavei, uccagoyaṁ kammaṁ nibandhai', ityādi. vistarecchubhir atra Bhikśuracita 'Navapadartha Caupai' nirîkşaniya.
(Aph.) Wherever there is auspicious activity, there is, of necessity, shedding off (nirjara) of karmic matter. (XXVII)
(Gloss) Auspicious activity is the cause of auspicious bondage, and, as such, is a variety of influx. But as it also necessarily destroys the inauspicious karma, it is also the cause of shedding off of karmic matter. The auspicious activity, being a two-fold product, viz. a result of rise
१ उत्तराध्ययन, २६ /१०
1 Uttarādhyayana, 29/10
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