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THE PATH OF NIRVANA OR LIBERATION 145
Among the causes of bondage, wrong belief is the prominent cause ; wrong knowledge is a minister to the king Wrong Belief or Delusion, 12.
I am this', 'it is mine' these two are the sons as well as commanders-in-chief of the king Delusion; under their control the army of Delusion acts. 13.
That which is always other than the self just as body and other conditions is due to karmas. To identify oneself with them as “it is mine” is just as to believe that body is mine. 14.
To identify oneself with the impure thoughtactivities due to the operation of karmas which do not really belong to self as I am this' 'I am the King, (is wrong). 15.
'I am this ' “it is mine' these two thoughts arise on account of wrong belief with wrong knowledge. Attachment and hatred are due to these two. 16.
Attachment and hatred bring forth passions like anger etc. Affected by these passions, mind, body and speech, act, and through their actions the sins of injury to living beings etc. are caused. 17.
Through these sins, bondage of karmas occurs; on account of the operation of these karmas, good or bad conditions of existence appear, where the beings have fresh outer bodies and with them, sense organs. 18,
There the beings grasp the objects of senses and thereby produce delusion, attachment and hatred. whereby again bondage of karmas occurs ; thus the
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