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Head 301
Knowledge Path/377
Doubt First, the rise and fall of all-destroying competitors in the sensory path and the yoga path, the pacification of those same competitors, and the rise of country-destroying competitors were used to describe the state of pacification of the karmas. But here, the rise and fall of all-destroying competitors and their pacification are both denied, and only the rise of country-destroying competitors is said to be the cause of the pacification of karmas. Why is there no contradiction in this?
Solution - There is no contradiction, because if it is desirable to believe that the pacification of karmas is caused by the rise of country-destroying competitors along with the rise and fall of all-destroying competitors, then the pacification of karmas of the sense of touch, body yoga, and intellectual knowledge and scriptural knowledge will not be obtained; because the all-destroying competitors of the coverings of the sense of touch, the obstacle of semen, intellectual knowledge, and scriptural knowledge have an effect at all times. That is, the rise of the all-destroying competitors of the said coverings never happens. There is no contradiction in this either, because in the sensory path and the yoga path, that description was given to explain the order of explanation of other teachers. What is regularly produced by something is its function, and that other thing is the cause that produces it. But the rise and fall of all-destroying competitors, like the rise of country-destroying competitors, are not the producers of their respective knowledge according to the rule, because at the time of the final destruction of the subtle karmas, the destruction of the all-destroying competitors of the knowledge coverings of clairvoyance and mental perception is not found to produce clairvoyance and mental perception.
How does a being with perfect knowledge become a being with perfect knowledge? Perfect knowledge is not karmic either, because karma refers to an effect, and it is contradictory to consider an effect as a cause.
Solution - A being becomes a being with perfect knowledge through the acquisition of perfect knowledge. The destruction of the covering of perfect knowledge is insignificant, meaning it is merely the absence of something, so it should not be understood that it is incapable of performing any action, because it is contradictory to consider the living being's substance, which is devoid of the bondage, pacification, and rise of the covering of perfect knowledge, and which is endowed with infinite power, detachment, right conduct, and vision, etc., as insignificant. Considering something as the absence of something is not contradictory, because the essence and the effect are found to embrace each other completely through their own essence. There is no contradiction in what is found, because the subject of contradiction is non-attainment, and therefore, where there is attainment of something, it is contradictory to believe that contradiction exists. 5
Doubt - Why is it said that false knowledge also arises from the rise of the infinite attachments? The mere external appearance of falsehood was sufficient, because the rise of falsehood itself leads to opposite attachment.
Solution - In the seventh stage of the qualities, false knowledge (cognition) occurs even though falsehood does not arise. To explain this, the rise of infinite attachments is also a cause of ignorance. Opposite attachment is called falsehood, and it is caused by both falsehood and infinite attachments.
1. Dhavala Pu. 7 86-7. 2. Dhavala Pu. 7 p. 88. 3. "Kevalaraganiinam katham bhavadhi ||46|| Na khaiyam pi, khano ranam prabhavo tamas karanattavihado." [Dhavala Pu. 7 p. 88 480]. 4. "Khadyaae lagieae ||47||" and commentary [Dhavala Pu. 7 p. 60-61].