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Karma Bandha them. They are not inauspicious, therefore, our lives should be spent in noble and spiritual activities and observances. Question: Why should we desire or have a temptation for even auspicious karmas ? Actually even these karmas constitute a bondage, may be with gold threads. We have to break off chains and handcuffs. We can attain moksha only when we have broken off the bondages. Then why should a man desire for auspicious karmas ?
Answer : If a jiva is bound by auspicious karmas later he will get such things as birth in the human state, sound health, birth in a noble land, birth in a noble family and contacts with spiritual heads and Gods. A man can carry out a lofty kind of spiritual adoration, only after attaining these things. A dog for example is unemployed and unengaged. Yet can it carry out such activities as acquiring knowledge; listening to spiritual discourses; showing devotion to the Jin; carrying out vows etc ? Why can it not carry out these things ? We have to say that it has not attained the human state. Auspicious karmas give us the substances and the opportunities for carrying out spiritual activities that destroy karmas. Therefore, they are necessary. It is seen that when the auspicious Ayushya karma decreases, our spiritual activities will be impeded.
Question : If we think of it, we find that a man commits greater sins only after he attains health, wealth, fame etc. (only after the emergence of the punya karmas relating to them). Answer : The reason for it is this. That punya is defective and corrupt. It is a Papanubandhi punya. Papa and punya each of these is of two kinds.
PUNYANUBANDHI PUNYA: This kind of punya enables us to earn more punya on account of which we attain nobility and carry out spiritual activities which bring us more punya (merit).
PAPANUBANDHI PUNYA: When this kind of punya emerges to surface, the jivas engage themselves in such sinful activities and propensities as sensual enjoyments, passions, acquiring wealth, satisfying the Kama purushartha, causing
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