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Q.VI.20.5 A.VI.20.5
What is meant by self-restraint / control? Giving up inclinations of inauspicious sensual organs is called selfrestraint.
Q.VI.20.6 A.VI.20.6
What is meant by involuntary dissociation with effort (ak manirjar )? Dissociation which accrues without the specific objective so doing is involuntary dissociation e.g. enduring thirst; hunger, discipline etc. result in dissociation of karmas also.
Q.VI.20.7 A.VI.20.7
What is meant by austerities with perverted views (b latapa)? Observance of austerities by a person with perverted faith (without proper knowledge of reality and true nature of self) is called austerities with perverted views.
Q.VI.20.8 A.VI.20.8
What is literal meaning of b la and tapa? B la (literarily means child). Here it implies perverted faith. Tapa means Practising conduct which prevents spiritual downfall.
Q.VI.20.9
A.VI.20.9
Observing austerities are the causes of achieving stoppage of influx and dissociation of karmas. Then why is austerities with perverted views the cause of transgression? Austerities observed by a person with right faith are the cause of stoppage and dissociation of karmas. Austerities observed by a person with perverted faith are the cause of transgression.
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TE; doa p VI.21
Samyaktvam ca
vFk% Meaning:
TE; dro Akh nok; q ds vklko dk dkj.k gå Right belief also (is the cause of influx of life-karma leading to celestial birth).
Q.VI.21.1
Why is 'samyaktvam ca' given as a separate aphorism, when selfrestraint with attachment and partial-restraint are the causes of influx for heavenly births? Influx of karmas to a person with right-belief leads to the birth as peripatetic gods only. This is the importance of the aphorism.
A.VI.21.1
Q.VI.21.2
A.VI.21.2
If right-belief is the cause of birth as peripatetic gods, then can living beings observing self-restraint with attachment and partial-restraint achieve birth as residential (bhavany si) gods? One cannot practice self-restraint with attachment and partial-restraint without right-belief. Hence both are included in right-belief also. So these can be the cause of influx leading to birth as Saudharma-indra etc also.
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