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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION
21 (52 to 54) A person who is worldly, becomes the subject of feeling like attachment and aversion; as a consequence, kama binds his soul; the bondage of karmas results in cycles of births. As a result of birth, he gets a body; the body will have its senses; the senses will lead to their respective enjoyments which in turn will give birth to attachment and aversion. Thus is the soul involved into cycles of births and deaths - that is why it is said by the supreme Jinas, that the soul as such is beginningless and endless and still it has an end (due to its death).
(55) Birth is painful, old age is painful, disease and death are painful. Oh: painful, indeed, is worldly existence, where living beings suffer afflictions.
6. PRECEPTS ON KARMAS
(56) If a thing is possessed of a certain definite form, then to consider it otherwise, to act as if it were otherwise, or to describe as otherwise is perversion.
(57) Whenever a soul experiences this or that mental state at that very time it gets bound by a corresponding good or evil karmas.
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