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Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra
resulting in the clinging of karmic matter, virtuous and wicked, with it. And, as a consequence, it wanders in the four states of worldly existence.
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रागद्वेषद्वय दीर्घनेत्राकर्षणकर्मणा ।
अज्ञानात् सुचिरं जीवः संसाराब्धौ भ्रमत्यसौ ॥ ११ ॥
Our soul, due to nescience (ajñāna), keeps on pulling either end of the long rope - one end symbolizing attachment (rāga) and the other aversion (duesa) - and, as a consequence, whirls round in the cycle of births and deaths (samsara) for a very long time.
Jain, Vijay K. (2014), "Acārya Pujyapāda's Iṣṭopadeśa - The Golden Discourse”, p. 37.
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