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( 26 ) Karmic matter, also. And by the checking of Quasi-Karmic matter there results the checking of the cycle of transmie gration,
CHAPTER VII THE SHEDDING OF KARMAS (NIRJARA). 202 All the enjoyment, through the senses, of things inanimate and animate, which is bad by the right believer, is for the shedding of karmas.
203. In enjoying a substance there certainly is produced pleasure or pain. (The right believer) feels sach pleasure (or) pain as the resaltant (of Karma). Thus the shedding (of Karmic matter) takes place.
204. As learned men (in anti-toxic science) do not meet death when they have poison; so the kaower takes the operation of Karmic matter, but is not bound (by new Karmas).
205. As the taking wine (as medicine) without a desire for it, does not intoxicate a man, so the Knoster also, by enjoying things without desire for them, is not bound (big Karmas).
205. One even when enjoying does ao! enjoy; and (another) eren when not enjoing is the enjoger. One occupied in a drama does not become the dramatic character.
207. Aoger (is) Karmic matter, the nature of it is this (thought-anger) This is not ay natare; I am really the Knower only by nature.
203. How is it that this mature fruition of the operation of Karmas of many kinds is not thy (nature)? (Because) it is produced by foreign substances. Not even the unconscious body.is (thiae)