Pictorial Philosophical Balpothi

Author(s): Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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BANDH
Like a prisoner being tied up with a rope from all the sides, a worldly being gets completely tied up by karma from all the sides. It has to get imprisoned in the jail of a body and has to roam in four states. Merits get accumulated with holy acts & wishes, which is like a golden chain, whereas sins get accumulated with unholy acts and wishes, which is like an iron chain. Both the chain causes to tie a soul in this world.
An iron ball, if heated, gets identified with fire. Water, if poured into milk gets mixed. Similarly, karma gets mixed with the soul. As soon as karma gets mixed, its nature, duration, intensity and quantity is decided. It is known as prakruti-bandh (nature bond), sthiti-bandh (situation bond). ras-bandh (intensity bond) and pradesh-bandh (quantity bond).
If a laddu is made using dry ginger, ghee and jaggery, its nature of demolition of gas trouble, will last for few days and will get spoiled afterwards. Its taste is sweet, pungent and its quantity is 50 to 100 gms.
Likewise, while accumulating the karma, it gets classified on the basis of how they have been accumulated. The nature of them is decided accordingly. Some karma tends to restrict knowledge, some tend to give happiness or unhappiness, some tend to create infatuation (like, dislike, futility etc.). The duration, intensity and quantity of karma are decided during that period. karma gives appropriate fruit, when the time comes. While experiencing good and bad results of karma, a being gets crazy and accumulates newer karma through senses, kashayas, sinful activities, accumulation of wealth, greediness etc. It had also gathered previous karmas in a same way. This churning has been on for infinite years, so the world has been continuing for infinite years.
If one lives in good spirit and worship of religion, accumulation of sinful karmas get stopped and many of the accumulated sins get converted into merits. The power of some of the sins get decreased and the power of merits get increased. Some of the sins get destroyed forever. When all the sins are destroyed forever, the worldly cycles of birth and death come to an end and the soul attains moksha.
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