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karmic destruction. Because auspicious activities indicate lessening of passions, they result in reduction in the duration of the bondage due to destruction of such duration of bondage. As a rule as the auspicious or pure volitional dispositions increase, auspicious activities like kindness, compassion, renunciation, restraint, penance, etc., will also increase and consequently the meritorious influx will also increase. This increase in the quantity of these auspicious natured karma will take place by the destruction and reduction of the corresponding durations of inauspicious natured sinful karmic bondages.
In the abovementioned verse, compassion and pure volitional consciousness have been mentioned as the reasons for meritorious karmic influx. This shows that what is done by pure volitional consciousness is also done by compassion because the auspicious volitional dispositions are the practical aspects of pure volitional consciousness. Actually, the pure consciousness results in purification of the soul, which results in the increase in its sensitivity, which is an attribute of its quality of right vision. This sensitivity itself manifests itself in the form of compassion, affection, kindness, mercy, etc. All these are the expressions of quality of rightness of vision and are, therefore natural attributes of the soul.
Like this, compassion is a form of pure volitional consciousness and cannot be separated from it. Therefore what can be accomplished through pure volitional consciousness can also be accomplished by compassion. Kindness is also a form of compassion only and, therefore kindness is also a natural attribute of the soul. Both - kindness and compassion being pure or auspicious volitional dispositions result in sinful karmic destruction.
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