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Verse 46
The soul loses its pure consciousness as a result of bondage with karmic matter, like knowledge-obscuring karma, and, as a consequence, entertains passions like attachment.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Shri Amritchandra Suri's
Puruşārthasiddhyupāya”, Vikalp Printers, p. 10-11. This cycle of passions causing bondage of karmas, and bondage of karmas causing passions, continues incessantly unless snapped by own effort.
There are two ways by which karmas get dissociated from the soul.
First, karmas fall off on fruition in natural course at the end of their duration, after yielding the fruits – pain or pleasure. The auspicious as well as the inauspicious karmas reach the stage of fruition gradually and then dissociate from the soul. This is involuntary dissociation of karmas. As per the Scripture, the maximum duration of the four inimical types of karmas, the deluding, the knowledge-obscuring, the perception-obscuring, and the obstructive karmas, is seventy, thirty, thirty, and thirty sāgaropama kotīkotī, respectively. The minimum duration of these four inimical types of karmas is up to one muhūrta. The minimum duration of the deluding karmas occurs in case of the ascetic in the ninth stage of development. The minimum duration of the knowledge-obscuring, the perception-obscuring, and the obstructive karmas is obtained in case of the ascetic in the tenth stage of development.
Second, karmas are being made to ripen prematurely by one's own effort, just as mango or other fruits are made to ripen through special contrivances. This type of dissociation does not wait for the ripening of karmas in natural course of things and is achieved through penance and other austerities. The knowledgeable soul strives to attain its purity through this method.
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