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Gommatasar Karmakanda - 695
Darshan-Jnana-Charitra are the path to liberation, therefore they should be served.
It has been said by the virtuous that both bondage and liberation come from them. || 164 || Panchastikaya
Meaning - The virtuous have said that Darshan-Jnana-Charitra is the path to liberation, therefore they should be served, but bondage and liberation also come from them, i.e. although all the Acharyas have said that Samyag Darshan-Jnana-Charitra is the path to liberation, yet they are also the cause (reason) of bondage and liberation.
If someone has a doubt that how can two opposite actions happen from the same cause, then the Acharyas have given the example of a lamp, saying that there is no contradiction at all in this. Just as the same lamp is the cause of the light of knowledge-charitra and also the cause of the darkness in the form of smoke; in the same way, Samyag Darshan also destroys karma and also causes the bondage of Tirthankara nature and Aharakavika, but this is the cause of liberation, not of the world. Just as a businessman spends on advertising etc. for his business, but that expenditure is the cause of income, not loss. The commentator of Samyatsar, Shri Amritchandracharya, has also said in the fourth chapter of the "Tattvarthasar" that Samyag Darshan is the cause of the bondage of Devayu.
Saragsamyama chaiva samyaktva desasamyama data
Iti devayuṣo hote bhavanti asava hetavaḥ || 43 || Tattvarthasar A.4 ||
Meaning - Saragsamyama, Samyaktva and Desasamyama are the causes of the Asrava of Devayu.
Although there is an eighth chapter called "Vedanapachchaya Vihanani Yogahar" in the fourth chapter called "Vedana" of the Shatkhandagama (D.P. 12 p. 275), but it does not mention the reasons for the later natures and the general reasons for the original natures are mentioned in relation to the Naya, therefore the "Vedanapachchaya Vihanani Yogahar" of the Vedana Khand is not considered here.