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( 22 ): Conquerors to be wrong knowledge. By its operation the soul becomes of perverse knowledge. (It) should be known. That which obscures right conduct is said to be passion by the Conquerors. By the operation of that the soul becomes of wrong conduct. It should be known.
CHAPTER V.
INFLOW OF KARMAS, 171. In the soul, wrong belief, vowlessness, passion and vibratory activity, living, and non-living, and (their) very many varieties (are) not any other's but its own thought activities.
172. They are the causes (of inflow) of Karmic matter of the knowledge obsurcing and other kinds of karmas. The soal is also the cause of such thought-activities as love and zbatred.
173. Bat there is no inflow (or) bondage in a right believing soul. There is the checking of inflow (in it). Such (right believer) being unbound by them (the new Karmas) merely knows the existence of the previously bound Karmas,
174. Thought-activity, such as love, hatred, proceeding from the soul becomes the binder of Karmas (with it i.e. becomes the auxiliary cause of bondage).
But the soul) free from love etc. (is) free from bondage (and is) the Knower (only).
175. As the ripe fruit, which has fallen down, cannot be attached as fruit, again to (the old) stalk; so in the soul,
karmic matter which has fallen off (after fruition) can never agaia (be bound, and) matured to operation.
