________________ Verse 57 EXPLANATORY NOTE The soul (iva) is bound with the karmas - the material-karmas (dravyakarma) like the knowledge-obscuring (jnanavaraniya) - from the beginningless time. As the karmas come to fruition (udaya), the soul (jiva) experiences their effect in form of happiness and misery. While experiencing these effects of the karmas, the soul (jiva) undergoes transformations in its dispositions (bhava) in form of attachment (raga) and aversion (dvesa), etc. From the impure transcendental point-of-view (asuddha niscaya naya), the soul (jiva) becomes the doer (karta) of those impure dispositions (bhava). Acarya Amrtacandra's Purusarthasiddhyupaya: जीवकृतं परिणामं निमित्तमात्रं प्रपद्य पुनरन्ये / स्वयमेव परिणमन्तेऽत्र पुद्गलाः कर्मभावेन // 12 // जीव द्वारा किये गये रागद्वेषादिक विभाव-भाव का निमित्तमात्र पाकर फिर जीव से भिन्न जो पुद्गल हैं वे इस आत्मा में अपने आप ही कर्मरूप से परिणमन करते हैं। As a consequence of the transformations (parinama) slike attachment (raga)] in the soul, the physical matter (pudgala), on its own, gets bound with the soul, transforming itself into the karmic matter [like the knowledge-obscuring (jnanavaraniya) karma]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
