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Letter 22
unfavourable circumstances and surrounding things are due to the fruits of sinful deeds. Jeev who thinks that the fruits of earlier deeds to be pleasurable, considers virtuous bondage i.e. Punya Bandha, to be good and therefore worth doing.
One who is interested or takes pleasure in fruits of Punya likes Punya Bandha as well. But it is needless to say that one who believes that certain bondages are pleasurable has definitely perverted belief about Bandha Tattva.
Sanyoga or surrounding things and circumstances are substances and entities separate from one's own self and to consider them to be favourable and unfavourable is itself Mithyatva.
Karma Bandha is formed because of Asravas. And the fruits of some Karma do not allow the manifestation of attributes of Dnyan, Darshan and Veerya to bloom to their fullest capacity and even the degree of the manifestation varies as per the degree of Karmas. Some other Karmas are instrumental cause of Mithyatva and passions. Other Karmas give fruits in the form of pleasurable or miserable surroundings or circumstances. While still some other Karmas are instrumental cause of characteristics of body (its height, colour, form etc.).
The root cause of all these is Karma. But it is very minute and is not visible. This Jeev considers that he himself or the God or the destiny to be the Karta or creator of these circumstances. And his this belief about the Karta of circumstances is his fallacious belief about Bandha Tattva. In other words, he does not realise or understand that Karmas are the instrumental cause of the circumstances, and wrongly believes that either he or God or destiny creates circumstances.
Just realise that the one who has wrong or fallacious belief of one ⚫ Tattva, has fallacies beliefs about all the seven Tattvas.
I will discuss the fallacies about the rest of Tattvas i.e. Samvar, Nirjara and Moksha in my next letter.
With love.
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Your Mom.
On one hand if you are to gain Samyak Darshan and on the other hand if you are to gain the kingdom of whole cosmos; attainment of Samyak Darshan is superior. Because kingdom of the whole cosmos is going to meet an end after a particular period and on gaining Samyak Darshan one is surely going to acquire Moksha which is eternal Bliss.
- Acharya Shivakoti' Bhagavati Aradhana
