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daṁsaņassa vā ņimmülaviņāso kirai, jāva davvabhāvi-guņābhāve jīvābhāvappasangādo”. That is – It is not right to say that we can completely destroy karma, knowledge and vision because this belief will result in a situation where the livingness of the living being will become questionable, which is not proper.
What is meant here is that no living being can ever be wholly impure, it is partially impure, only. This partial impurity remains from the first stage to the tenth stage of spiritual development. And the rule being discussed is that karmic separation is not possible in the presence of any impurity. Therefore we will have to accept that none else but the fully detached Lords Jina could achieve karmic separation. This is a fundamental error. Therefore, the only way a non-omniscient aspirant can achieve karmic separation is through auspicious volition. It is the karmic separation through auspicious volition that results in the gaining of the right vision. It is the auspicious volition only that becomes helpful in the gaining of subsidential and destructional volitions. The gaining of these volitions is not possible in the presence of complicated and increasing inauspicious volitions.
The auspicious volition comes about not due to the rise of passions but due to their weakening. It is so because the rise, bonding, existence of passions is inauspicious or sinful only. To consider the inauspicious rise of passions as auspicious volition is to consider sin as merit. To consider so is erroneous, misleading and false.
Auspicious volition comes about due to the weakening of passions. The weakening of passions is not a cause of karmic bondage but that of karmic destruction. The fact is that the karmic bondages that take place in the presence of auspicious volition, take place because of inauspicious volition due to the rise of passions that are also present. The durational karmic bondage can take place due to passions only. In the absence of durational bondage there is no meaning of any karmic bondage. What is meant is that the cause of durational bondage of karmic bondage is fruitional volition due to the presence of passions, and not the auspicious volition as is being made out by some so called logicians. Therefore, it
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