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means of shedding karmic bondages. The fruitional volition (Audayika bhāva) is a cause of karmic bondage, subsidential (Aupaśamika), destructional (Kșāuyika) and mixed - destructo-subsidential (Kṣāyopaśamika) volitions (bhāva) result in liberation and inherent volitions (Pāriņāmika bhāva) cause neither bondage nor liberation.'
In the abovementioned example, the commentator - Śri Vīrasenācārya has clearly and emphatically said that the destructosubsidential volition (auspicious combination or śubha yoga) is a cause of liberation. That it results in karmic separation and not in karmic bondage. It is only the fruitional volition that causes karmic bondage.
On this belief the honourable editor of Jayadhavalā commentary, Shri Phoolchandji Premi has written, as a note in the form of special meaning, that the auspicious volition comes about due to the fruition of passions etc., and not due to their destruction cum subsidence. Therefore, if the fruitional volition causes karmic bondage, the auspicious volition should also be a cause of karmic bondage and not of karmic separation. Mr. Editor's belief that “auspicious volition comes about due to the fruition of passions" is not confined to him aloi This belief has gained ground in many a sect of Jainas for the last few centuries. The reason behind this argument is that if they do not accept the coming about of auspicious volition due to fruitional volition, their belief that auspicious volition results in karmic bondage cannot be sustained.
Here, first of all, we have to think whether the rise of passion, or the fruitional volition, is the cause of coming about of auspicious volition or not? The following facts deserve our consideration in this regard –
Passions are part of inauspicious volition. To consider the coming about of auspicious volition out of inauspicious one, is fundamentally erroneous. This error is such as if some one plants the bitter Margosa (Nīma) tree and claims that it yields sweet mango fruits. The rule is ‘as the seed is, so the fruit'. Therefore, the auspicious volition cannot come about due to the fruition of inauspicious passions and to believe so is an error.
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