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not incur any karmic bondages even when they, breathe, walk and preach.
Not only this, the fully detached Lords Jina naturally engage themselves in activities of general benefit like mercy, charity, affection, etc.,. The Omniscient Lords are infinitely charitable, they are universally beneficial but their activities are not done, they just happen without any desire behind them. They happen just like the drum produces sound when it is struck but there is no desire on the part of the drum to produce that sound. It is only the activities that have desires behind them that suffer from the feelings of doership and consequently they result in karmic bondage. We see all sorts of things as soon as we open our eyes and hear all sorts of sounds with our ears. However, merely seeing and listening does not result in karmic bondages. It results due to the resolves and desires that accompany the actions, due to the feelings of doership and enjoyership and due to passions in the form of attachmentaversion and delusion. As has been said -
Sukh-duḥkha donon basat hain, jñānī ke ghața manhin |
Giri sara dise mukura men, bhāra bhījabo nāhin ||
That is, - We can see the mountain and the pond in the mirror but the mirror does not get wet with the water of the pond and does not become heavy due to the mountain. Similarly, the enlightened souls also feel the pains and pleasures as per their karmic fruition but they do not incur any karmic bondage due to these feelings. It is clear that the passions that accompany any actions and not the actions by themselves result in karmic bondages. Therefore, the auspicious activities are not unacceptable and abandonable but it is the passions that are unacceptable and abandonable. Passions are the cause of karmic bondage.
2. Objection-Auspicious activities are meritorious activities and they result in karmic bondage. Being the cause of karmic bondage the auspicious activities of mercy, kindness, compassion, benevolence charity, service, affection, protection etc., hinder liberation.
Answer To consider the meritorious activities as the cause of karmic bondage is an erroneous assumption because the existence of
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