Book Title: Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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________________ Sütras 20-21) Spiritual Development 147 time of binding the age-determining karman, there is accession of all the eight types of karman upto the seventh state excepting the third. In the tenth state there is the accession of only six types of karman excepting the age-determining and the deluding ones. २०. ईपिथिको वीतरागस्य। fuf-uti:, qreTT:—ATT FT GEFT T Sufafer: 1 37452 ara वेदनीयरूपः द्विसमयस्थितिको भवति । 20. iryāpathiko vītarāgasya. iryā-yogah, panthāḥ-mārgo yasya bandhasya sa Tryāpathikaḥ, ayañ ca sātavedaniyarūpaḥ dvisamayasthitiko bhavati. (Aph.) The karmic bondage in the case of vitarāga is 'instantaneous'. (Gloss) The word īryāpathika (rendered 'instantaneous") means the bondage due to activity (iryà). It is of the nature of pleasurable feeling, (is occasioned by mere activity,) and endures only for two instants. (It is bound in the first instant, enjoyed in the second, and shed off in the third). (Note) So long as there is activity, pure or impure, there must be accession of karman. This comes to an end only in the fourteenth stage. But this karmic action does not produce any deleterious effect, because there is absence of accompanying passions. 38. qaratsatsit. 21. abandho'yogi. (Aph.) One in the state (of omniscience) with total cessation of activities does not incur bondage. (XXI) (Note) It is worthy of note that there is a process of transition from the thirteenth to the fourteenth state. "Before entering into the......fourteenth stage......, the soul prepares for the stoppage of all activity, gross and subtle. The stoppage of an activity requires another activity as the instrument. And so the soul first stops the gross activities of the sense-organ of speech and the mind by the gross activity of the body. Then it stops the gross activity of the body as well as the subtle activities of the sense-organ of speech and the mind by the subtle activity of the body. The soul then... stops the subtle bodily activity by means of the activity itself for there is none other than itself...... The soul then enters the stage......which is bereft of all vibration (samucchinnakriya) and infallible (aprati pātin). It is now as motionless as a moun Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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