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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Thus are found the conditions owing to the rise of passions and quasi-passions.
Here a thought comes to the mind that if one does not indulge in these conditions then anger, etc. passions produce pain and if one indulges in these conditions then miseries continue till the end of life. There, the Jivas accept the miseries till the end of life but are not prepared to bear the agony of anger, etc. passions. From this discussion it is ascertained that the pain of passions is more than even the agony of death.
And when the rise of passion-causing Karma takes place then he cannot resist the temptation of indulging in passion. If the external causes of passions are met with then one indulges in passions entangling in them. If no causes are met with then he himself creates the causes. For example, if the cause of involving in business, etc. passions be not there, then he himself creats the causes, e.g. gambling and playing various other games that are the causes of anger, etc. and narrating and hearing to the wicked tales, etc. Moreover, if the carnal desire, anger passion, etc. produce agony and the body does not possess the power of acting according to those passions then he prepares and takes the medicines and adopts various other means. And if no cause is met with then he himself indulges in passions on his own by thinking in his Upayoga (active consciousness) about the objects which cause passions. In this way, this Jiva being afflicted from passional dispositions becomes extremely miserable.
And “If the purpose for which the passional disposition has occurred gets accomplished then my this misery may end and I may become happy” - thinking so, he arranges various means for getting that purpose accomplished and treats it to be the means of ending that misery
Now, here the misery which is caused due to passional dispositions, is really true and one obviously himself suffers from such misery, but the means which he adopts are false, Why so ? This is being explained below :
In anger to harm other, in pride to exalt self by humiliating others, in deceit to accomplish one's object through deceptive means, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only
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