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Chapter IX
पापं ध्रुवं परे दुःखात् पुण्यं च सुखतो यदि।
1190 pit o aterai Aftag: 119211 pāpaṁ dhruvam pare duḥkhāt punyaṁ cha sukhato
yadi,
achetanākaşāyau cha badhyeyātām nimittataḥ.
92. If there be sin from pain caused to others and virtue from happiness (caused to others), the unconcious instruments and those free from kaşāyas, will get bondage being instrumental cause.
COMMENTARY In this verse the view of those, who hold that sin arises from causing pain to others and virtue from happiness caused to others and not from predestination, is refuted. It is urged that to hold this view, the unconscious objects, viz., poison or weapons which are used to kill others will be the cause of bondage. If you say that only animate beings are meant, the fault would be that even a Jina, free from all kaşāyas will become subject to bondage for bondage results from happiness and misery. If you say that he has no intention (manaḥsankalpa), it cannot be accepted that bondage from punya and pāpa fesults from happiness or misery caused to others.
Kaşāyas are of four kinds: krodha (anger), māna (pride), māyā (deceit) and lobha (greed). A Jina is free from all these.
The Jaina view is this. Yoga is the name of a faculty of the soul itself to attract matter, under the influence
