Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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(७) आस्रव-भावना
(भुजंगप्रयातवृत्तम्) पटोत्पत्तिमूलं यथा तन्तुवृन्दं, घटोत्पत्तिमूलं यथा मृत्समूहः । सृणोत्पत्तिमूलं यथा तस्य बीजं, तथा कर्ममूलं च मिथ्यात्वमुक्तम् ॥५॥
Meaning :- The wise seers have declared in the scriptures that false belief is the principal cause of the Karmic Influx, that is to say, the origination and increased accumulation of the Karmas such as the Knowledgeobstructing. Faith-obstructing, and Vision-obstructing etc. depend more or less on it just as in the origination of a piece of cloth, fibres are the main constituting cause, in the production of a pot, the lump of earth, and in the cropping up of innumerable blades of grass on earth, their seeds. Five are the gates through which the Karmas get entry into the Chamber of Soul and of these five false belief is the principal. (50)
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