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TEXTS: METAPHYSICS IX
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IX. THE NINE PADĀRTHAS 4. जीवाजीवा भावा पुरणं पावं च आसवं तेसिं । संवरणिज्जरवंधो मोकवो य हवंति ते अट्ठा ॥ १०८ ॥
Panchāstikūya, 108. Soul (jiva), non-soul (ajīva), merit (punya), sin or demerit (papa), inflow of matter (ūsrava of meritorious or sinful karmas), its cessation (samvara), falling away (nirjard), bondage (bandha), and final liberation
(moksha) are the (nine) principles (padārthas). 5. मुहपरिणामो पुरणं अमुहो पावो ति हवदि जीवस्म । दोण्हं पोग्गलमेत्तो भावो कम्मत्तणं पत्तो ॥ १३२ ॥
___ Ibid. 132. The good evolution (pariņāma) of the soul is merit (punya); the bad evolution is sin (pāpa). It is the materialization of these two which becomes (good or bad) karmas.
NOTE.—The former is merit or sin of thought (bhūra); the latter is realized (dravya) merit or sin.
56. रागो जस्स पसत्थो अणुकंपासंसिदो य परिणामो । चित्तंहि णस्थि कलसं पुरणं जीवस्स आसवदि ॥ १३५ ॥
Ibid. 135. Whatever soul has attachment only to right conduct le.g. devotion to the Arhats, etc.], whose evolution is penetrated with compassion, and the inner nature of which is without impurity of a grosser kind, punya (meritorious karmas) flows into it.
57. चरिया पमादबहुला कालुस्सं लोलदा य विसएसु । परपरिदावयवादो पावस्स य आसवं कुणदि ॥ १३९ ॥
Ibid. 139.
