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## Gommatasara Karmakanda - 688
**Special Meaning:** Those who are born from the karma of motion are called beings or living entities. To show compassion towards them with a joyful mind, or to tremble at their suffering as if it were one's own, or to feel compassion for another suffering person is called **Anukampa** (compassion).
**Vrata** (Vow) is the abstinence from violence, falsehood, theft, non-brahma conduct, and attachment, or the control of the senses, or the practice of vows like **Saraag-Samyama** (control of passions).
**Kshama** (Forgiveness) is the cessation of the passions like anger.
**Daan** (Charity) is the giving of four types of gifts to worthy recipients: food, medicine, protection, and knowledge.
**Guru Bhakti** (Devotion to the Guru) is the respectful bowing, seeing, etc., of the five Gurus (Arhant, Siddha, Acharya, Upadhyaya, Sadhu) with a joyful mind through inner transformation.
**Yoga** (Meditation) is Samadhi (absorption), Dharma Dhyana (meditation on Dharma), and Shukla Dhyana (meditation on purity).
The binding of **Saata Vedaniya Karma** (karma that produces immediate results) occurs to the being who performs these actions.
**Paritaap** (Regret) is the pain in the mind due to the results of suffering, separation from loved ones, criticism, etc.
**Aakrandan** (Lamentation) is the weeping with abundant tears and wailing due to the results of suffering.
**Paridevan** (Mourning) is the compassionate crying due to the results of suffering, which is the clinging to the results of suffering, and the desire for benefit to oneself and others.
The binding of **Asaata Vedaniya Karma** (karma that produces results in the future) occurs due to these results of suffering, regret, lamentation, and mourning.
**Further, the causes of the binding of Darshan Mohaniya Karma (karma that obscures right perception) are stated:**
**Arhant Siddha Chediyatavasu Daguru Dhamma Sangh Padiini Go | Bandhi Di Dansan Moh Anant Sansariyo Jeno || 802 ||**
**Meaning:** The being who is opposed to the Arhant, Siddha, their **Cheitya** (image), the **Nirgrantha Guru** (liberated Guru) who practices austerities, the **Nirdosha Shastra** (faultless scriptures), the **Veet Raag Dev** (passionless God) created Dharma, and the **Sangh** (community of Rishi, Yati, Muni, and Anagaar), i.e., the one who speaks against them, experiences the intense binding of **Darshan Moh** (false perception) and due to its arising, wanders in the endless cycle of births and deaths.
**Special Meaning:** To accuse the **Arhant** (omniscient) of faults, like saying that the Arhant Bhagwan eats meat.
To speak against the **Siddhas** (liberated souls) by saying that they have no pleasure, even though they have unparalleled happiness, or by saying that how can they be happy without the pleasures of women, etc.
To disrespect the **Cheitya** (images of Arhants and Siddhas) by saying that they are inanimate and without qualities, or by saying that what is the benefit of these images, they are useless.
To disrespect the **Tap** (austerities) by saying that the six types of external austerities like fasting, and the six types of internal austerities like repentance, cause suffering to the soul.
**1. According to Pra. Panchas. Poo. 168, verse 205 and page 594, verse 20.**
**2. "Kevalishruta Sangh Dharma Deva Avrna Vado Darshan Mohasya" (T.S.A. 6/13)**