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स्थित्यनुभाग प्रदेशा गुणप्रतिपन्नेषु येषामुत्कृष्टाः । तेषामनुत्कृष्टः चतुर्विध जघन्येपि एवमेव ॥ ६१ ॥
91. In (souls) advancing in (spiritual) stages, there is (in one and the same stage), non-maximum (bondage) of those Karmas of which there is the maximum (bondage), as regards duration (Sthiti), fruition-intensity (Anubhága) and molecular-density (Pradesha), (and appertaining to any of) the 4 kinds (begun, etc). Similarly (there is) non-minimum (where there is minimum).
Commentary.
As an example, take the case of a soul on the subsidential ladder. When he reaches the 10th stage of slightest-passion, he binds the maximum fruition-intensity of the high-family Karma and then proceeds on to the 11th, the subsided-passion stage. There he stays a very short time, and must fall back to the 10th stage. There he binds the non-maximum fruition-intensity of high-family Karma. This non-maximum bondage is of the "begun" (Sádi) kind, because it has a beginning. Again; take the case of a hellish being in the 7th hell about to acquire right-belief. He will bind the minimum fruitionintensity of low-family determining Karma, in the last instant of wrong-belief stage. The same soul falling from right-belief into the wrong-belief stage binds non-minimum-fruition intensity of lowfamily-determining Karma. This is also the "begun" (Sádi) kind.
The fruition-intensity bondage of the family-determining Karma has always been in this soul, and is of the "unbegun" (Anádi) kind.
In a soul incapable of liberation, the Karmas remain bound forever, such bondage is called lasting (Dhruva). The maximum fruition-intensity bondage of high-family-determining Karma which precedes the non-maximum bondage as given above is an example of transient (Adhruva) bondage.
सम्मेव तित्थबंध आहारदुगं पमादरहिदेसु ।
मिस्सू उस यमिच्छादिसु से सबंधो दु ॥ ६२॥ सम्यक्त्वे एव तीर्थबन्ध आहारद्विकं प्रमादरहितेषु । fâèìà aıgqa fazanzanity àqazaEZ || ER ||
92. The bondage of Tirthakara, (sub-class of body making Karma occurs) only in right belief (i.e., the 4th stage of vowless right-belief to the 6th part of the 8th stage of
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