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Sutra 8 ]
Inhibition, Falling off and Emancipation
tasya prathame kṣaṇe antarmauhūrtikam aupaśamikasamyaktvam bhavati.
kaścit punaḥ apūrvakaraṇena mithyātvasya puñjatrayaṁ1 kṛtvā śuddhapuñjapudgalan vedayan prathamata eva kṣayopaśamikaṁ samyaktvam labhate.
kaścic ca mithyātvaṁ nirmülaṁ kṣapayitvā kṣāyikaṁ präpnoti.
(Aph.) It is threefold on account of (its) differentiation into the (characteristics of) ‘automatic', 'unprecedented' and 'unamenable to lapse'. (VIII)
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(Gloss) The automatic spiritual operation is that natural 'pull' or 'vis a tergo' (adhyavasaya) of the soul by dint of which it, transmigrating in the world without beginning or end, arrives at the invincible Gordian knot consisting in attachment and hatred. This is achieved in due course just like the rounding off of the pebbles of a mountainstream. At this stage, the length of the seven types of karman, with the exception of life-span-determining karman, is reduced to a little less2 than one koti-koți sāgaropama years. Both the bhavyas and the abhavyas undergo this (operation) on many an occasion.
The hitherto unattempted operation whereby the soul prepares for cutting the Gordian knot is the 'unprecedented operation'.
The state (of the soul), which arises when the knot has been cut by the 'unprecedented operation', is responsible for the obstruction of the vision-deluding karmic matter rising in the immediately succeeding antarmuhurta. The complete subsidence of the same that is to rise in the second antarmuhurta effects the total absence of even the virtual realization of the karmic matter. Such state of the soul is an operation that is 'unamenable to lapse.'
The total 'absence of the enjoyment of karmic matter' is the 'operation of intercalation'.
In the first instant of the intercalated period begins the (dawn of) right faith due to subsidence (of the relevant karmans), lasting less than a muhurta.
(This is the common rule but) in special circumstances the person
1 suddham, ardhaśuddham, aśuddham ca kramaśaḥ samyaktvamohaniyam miśramohaniyam mithyātvamohanīyam iti namakam puñjatrayam
2 'Little less' stands for innumerablth part of a palyopama.
3 Koti-koți means koti koti (=1014).
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