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GOMMATASARA.
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नष्टप्रमादे प्रथमा संज्ञा न हि तत्र कारणाभावात् । शेषाः कर्मास्तित्वेनोपचारेणसन्ति न हि कार्ये ॥ १३ ॥
139. On the destruction of carelessness (pramáda, which exists till the sixth spritual stage), there remains no first animate feeling (i. e., desire for food), because of the absense of the (internal) cause; the remaining (three animate feelings) owing to the presence of their (causative) Karma, from a figurative point of view, still exist though they are not effective.
Commentary. Among the four causes of each of the four feelings, the internal cause is all-supreme. The other causes are effective only when there is the force of Karmas behind. Desire for food arises from the premature operation (Udíraná) of pain-feeling (Asátá-Vedaniya) Karma. Such operation is possible till the sixth Spiritual stage only. Therefore there is no desire for food beyond the sixth Stage. Fearminor-passion Karma operates only up to the Eighth, Sex-inclination minor-passion Karma up to the ninth, and greed-passion-Karma up to the tenth Spiritual Stage. But from the seventh stage onwards, their operation is so weak as not to disturb the meditative Saint in any manner. Thus the last three animate-feelings do not really exist beyond sixth Stage. They are said to exist only in a figurative way because the causative Karmas have not till then subsided or been destroyed.
CHAPTER VI.
Soul-quests (Márganá). First Soul-quest, condition of existence (Gati-márganá). धम्मगुणमग्गणाहयमोहारिबलं जिणं णमंसित्ता । मग्गणमहाहियारं विविहहियारं भणिस्सामो॥१४०॥ धर्मगुणमार्गणाहतमोहारिवलं जिनं नमस्कृत्वा । मार्गणामहाधिकारं विविधाधिकारं भणिष्यामः ॥ १४० ॥
140. Having bowed to the Conqueror (Jina) who has destroyed the forces of the enemy-delusion (Moha), by the (arrows of) soul-quests (Márganá) (discharged from) the string of attributes (knowledge, etc.,) (attached to
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