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**Verse Meaning:** Those beings who do not have auspicious and inauspicious yogas, which are the producers of merit and demerit, are the liberated Jinas, who are unparalleled and possess infinite power. || 243 ||
**Specific Meaning:**
**Doubt:** What are inauspicious yogas?
**Solution:** Violence, stealing, and sexual misconduct, etc., are inauspicious bodily yogas. And uncultured speech, etc., are inauspicious verbal yogas. The thought of killing is an inauspicious mental yoga.
**Verse 243:**
False speech, harsh speech, jealousy, envy, etc., are inauspicious.
**Doubt:** What are auspicious yogas?
**Solution:** Non-violence, non-stealing, celibacy, etc., are auspicious bodily yogas. Auspicious verbal yogas are speaking truthfully, beneficially, and moderately. Auspicious mental yogas are devotion to the Arhats, a liking for austerity, humility towards the scriptures, etc.
**Doubt:** What is the reason for the distinction between auspicious and inauspicious yogas?
**Solution:** The yoga that leads to auspicious results is an auspicious yoga, and the yoga that leads to inauspicious results is an inauspicious yoga.
**Doubt:** Why is it not said that the yoga that is the cause of auspicious karma is an auspicious yoga, and the yoga that is the cause of inauspicious karma is an inauspicious yoga?
**Solution:** No, if it were defined in this way, then there could be no auspicious yoga, because even auspicious yoga leads to the obscuration of knowledge, etc., which are inauspicious karmas. The definition of auspicious and inauspicious yoga that has been given is correct.
**Doubt:** If this is the case, i.e., auspicious yoga also leads to inauspicious karmas, then how is it said that auspicious yoga is the producer of merit?
**Solution:** The reference is to the merit and demerit in relation to the destructive karmas. Or, it is not asserted that "auspicious is the cause of only merit," but it is asserted that "auspicious is the cause of merit."
**Doubt:** What is merit?
**Solution:** That which purifies the soul or by which the soul is purified is merit, such as the seven types of knowledge, etc.
**Doubt:** How can the seven types of knowledge, etc., which are of the nature of bondage, be like iron shackles, purify the soul?
1. Tattvarth Rajavani and Sarvarthasiddhi 6/3 |