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mean is that not the auspicious activities of mercy, kindness, compassion, charity, etc., but the flaws of attachment and aversion and consequent sinful volitional dispositions hinder the attainment of the ultimate goal of liberation.
11. Objection - ‘No single activity can have two results'. Considering this as a principle, some object to calling the auspicious activities of mercy, kindness, compassion, charity, service, affection, friendship, etc., as positive non-violence. They say that the rendering services like giving water to the thirsty, giving food to the hungry, to treat and look after the sick, etc., results in violence towards innumerable water bodied, fire bodied, air bodied, vegetation bodied, etc., creatures. Therefore these activities are violent, sinful, irreligious, unrestrained and cause karmic bondage. As these cannot be violent and non-violent at the same time, they cannot be non-violent at all and cannot result in merit, dharma, restraint and karmic destruction and separation.
Answer - First of all we have to consider as to how true is the principle of the impossibility of two results for a single activity.
Every living being is always engaged in some activity or the other all the time. Therefore he earns karmic bondages all the time. These bondages can be of two types - sinful and meritorious. Every moment of their existence the living beings are earning the new bondages of the sinful kinds such as knowledge obscuring, vision obscuring, deluding, obstructing, etc., types and they are also shedding these bondages through fruition and earning the auspicious bondages of the types neither heavy nor light, creation of energy (Taijasa) and karmic (Kārmana) bodies, senses, etc... That is - every activity of the living beings is resulting in the bondages of the auspicious and inauspicious types every moment. At the same time the destruction of the karmic bondages that come to fruition and the bonding of the new ones is also taking place all the time. The pure volition due to reduction in passions result in the destruction of the earlier bonded sinful karma types and reduce their durations while due to the passions that have come to fruition, the new karmic bondages are also earned at the same time. All lay followers
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