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humanity, practicality, wisdom, reason, etc... Even to consider such a belief is insulting to the intellect.
9. Objection - In the activities of kindness, compassion, charity, etc., there is a resolve or a craving for certainty (Sankalpa) to save and help someone. When the resolution is not fulfilled it results in disappointment and wandering in alternatives or uncertainties (Vikalpa). Certainty (Sankalpa) and uncertainty (Vikalpa) are the causes of karmic bondage, which must be abandoned.
Answer - This belief is baseless, because it fails to distinguish between a thought and a resolution or a feeling and a desire. The resolution arises when there is a desire to fulfil some selfish need of the doer. To reflect intelligently on something is a thought. The thoughts can be of two types – 1. Unnatural and 2. Natural.
To intelligently reflect about the mundane pleasures and the means to obtain them and the resulting passions is the example of unnatural thoughts and they result in resolution. When such resolutions are not fulfilled they result in despondently wandering in alternatives. This resolution, and its non-fulfilment, results in despondent meditation (Ārtadhyāna), which is abandonable because it is a cause of karmic bondage.
To intelligently reflect on the means of benefit of the 'self' is right knowledge and not a resolution. To undertake auspicious activities of mercy, charity, etc., for the benefit of the "self' is right conduct. Right knowledge and right conduct result in karmic destruction and not in karmic bondage. To consider them as certainty (Sanklpa) and uncertainty (Vikalpa) is ignorance.
The feelings of friendship, joy, kindness, compassion, etc., and reflecting on the ineternal, shelterlessness, etc., and the conduct in accordance with them are known as restraint and pious reflection, which are means of karmic destruction.
10. Objection - Presently, one of the reasons cited is that infinite times the soul has gone to heavenly destinies like Navagraiveyaka,
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