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PRAVACHANASARA
161 taints the soul with karma and brings newer births. One escapes from the clutches of karmas and of life-essentials by subduing senses and meditating on the nature of the soul.
The soul's manifestation of consciousness may be either towards knowledge or towards cognition which in turn may be (pure or impure) auspicious or inauspicious. Auspicious one brings merit and the inauspicious one demerit-in the absence of both there is no bondage. The auspicious manifestation consists in piety, devotion and compassion ; the inauspicious one otherwise. One should meditate on the nature of the soul without confounding oneself with material objects and ideas of agency.
The atom which is a space unit, being dry or cohesive multiplies itself. It is said, because of modification, the aridness or the cohesion of the atoms increasing in number from one onwards attains infinity. Atomic modifications, whether cohesive or arid, whether odd or even bind mutually when they are Adiparihina and when there is the difference of two Amsas between the uniting party-units. An atom which has two Amsas of cohesion binds itself with another having four Amsas and an atom which has three Amsas of aridness binds itself with another having five Amsas while Skandhas come to have defferent gross forms according to their capacity. The Loka is thickly filled with material bodies both subtle and gross, capable of being received by the soul or not. The Skand has capable of becoming karmas develope themselves into eight kinds of karmas because of the impure manifestation of the soul. But navertheless the soul is in a sense their direct agent. They give rise to future births and further bodies. All the five kinds of bodiea (79) are material while the soul is supersensuous. beyond inferetial mark, without shape and all knowledge itself. Just as the supersensuous soul perceives material objects and qualities so it is bound by them. The sentient soul, coming in contact with different objects develops infaluation, love and hatred and so bondage is effected. When passiont are developed the material bodies occupy the space points of the soul. Passion
means dondoge and the absence of the same means release--so Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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