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The ignorant, dull and foolish person who is absorbed in the vice of craving for scnsuous enjoyments, who is of perverted mind in regard to prosperity and spiritual upliftment is bound by Karmas (psycho-physical impurities), just as a fly is caught in phlegm (Though) the suffering greatly caused by birth, old age and death is apprehended and contemplated, yet one is not able to detach oneself from the sensual pleasures Oh' the knot of hypocrisy has been lied strongly In the person who is really involved in the world, the impure psychical states occur bccause of this involvement) From the impure psychical states the Karma (impuri maternal particles) as such comes into being and from the Karma (bis) transmigration in the (four) grades of existence likes place From thc Jiva who has transmigrated to a grade of existence, the body arises and from the body scnscs come into being By means of the senses, there is the seizing of the sense-objects By reason of that attachment and aversion occur Thus, during the transmigration of Jiva, there arise in him psychical statcs(ol attachment and aversion) which are beginningless and endless or.(thcy) are ( beginningless) (and) having an end(because of his developing sprintul awakening, valuc- knowledge and ethico-spiritual conduct) This has been pronounced by the Arahantas ( embodied Spiritually perfect personalities) Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, diseases and deaths are suffering Oh' the mundane existence as such where the lives
are unhappy is suffering (6) Of Karma (Filth attached to the soul)
Through some (reflective-intuitive) method (adopted by the Acaryas), a mental state has been fixed ( to the occurrent of Kūrmic bondige) If the person « pis, sales and employs it otherwise, then, this (incompaubility) is the pur verseness of his mind Whenever the Jiva (person) gets associated with whatever psychical states, he binds (accordingly) the auspicious and inauspicious Karmas (material particles) al thui um
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