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undertaken under the influence of auspicious volitions has been considered as acceptable. The activity with auspicious volition not only results in the stoppage of the inauspicious but also in karmic destruction and separation.
The prohibition of the auspicious activities just because they result in the bonding of auspicious types of karmic bondages is not proper, because the auspicious activities like mercy, kindness, compassion, friendship, charity, service, affection, etc., are the cause of not only of the auspicious karma types but also of attaining liberation and are, therefore, acceptable and not deplorable or abandonable. It is so because the auspicious karmas are purely non-destructive. No basic quality of the soul is even partly destroyed due to any kind of auspicious activity and consequent karmic bondage. The intensity bondage of auspicious karma types is bonded due to reduction and destruction of passions. Therefore, when the aspirant is on the destructive ladder phase of his spiritual practice the intensities of the all present auspicious karmas peak and remain so till the very end when the soul achieves final deliverance. No living being can attain omniscience in the absence of reaching this peak of auspicious karmas. Said variously, it means that the destruction of passions and stoppage of sinful karmic influx results in incurring the auspicious karmas. Therefore, to consider merit as destructive for the spiritual aspirant and to prohibit it because it is the cause of meritorious karmic bondage is against the principles of Jaina faith, Jaina doctrine of karma, and its fundamental elemental knowledge. The Jaina philosophy considers only the sinful karmic bondages as deplorable and abandonable because they destroy the basic qualities and nature of the soul. The meritorious bondages have not been prohibited anywhere.
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