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GAŅADHARA 6 – MAŅDIKA
(1802) Hearing that they had became monks, Mandika came to the Jina (thinking), “I shall go, pay my respects to him and wait upon him.”
(1803) The Jina free from birth, old age, death, and allknower and all-seing-accosted him by his name and gotra.
(1804) You think, 'Are there bondage and emancipation or not ? This is your doubt. You do not know the meaning of the words of the Veda. This is what they mean.
(1805) You think that if bondage is the connection of the jiva (soul) with karma, was jīva prior and karma later or vice versa or were they simultaneous ?
(1806) The origination of the soul before (karma) is not possible for it like ass's horn would have no cause; and what is produced without any cause perishes also without any cause.
(1807) Or it (soul) is beginningless and there cannot be the union of the soul with karman without any cause. If this union is regarded as occurring without a cause, it will recur in the case of an emancipated (soul) also.
(1808) It would be eternally emancipated; or what emancipation could it have in the absence of bondage? The sky is not spoken of as 'free' in the absence of bondage (because it has no bondage).
(1809-10) And karman could not possibly be produced (before jīva), in the absence of the doer. If it be born without cause it too would be such (i. e.would perish without a cause). In the case of their being produced simultaneously, (the drawbacks of both the alternatives would be present) and in the event of
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