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INFLUX OF LIFE-KARMAS OF DEVAS
ness. To be naturally mild is natural mildness. Natural means without teaching or instruction. This natural mildness also leads to the influx that causes birth as a human being. It is mentioned separately, as it leads to influx that causes birth as a celestial being also. Is that alone the influx of life-karma of human beings ? No.
निश्शीलवतत्वं च सर्वेषाम Niśśilavratatvam ca sarveşam
(19) 19. Non-observance of supplementary vows, vows, etc. causes the influx of life-karmas leading to birth among all the four kinds of beings (conditions of existence).
'Ca' (etc.) is intended to include what have been referred to. Slight injury and slight attachment are also included herein. The supplementary vows and vows are explained later on. The first part of the sutra means non-observance of minor vows. and vows. The second part includes the influx of all the four kinds of life-karmas. Do these lead to birth in heaven also ? Yes. Men and women in the lands of paradise without the observance of vows are born in heaven after death.
What is the cause of influx of life in heaven?
सरागसंयमसंयमासंयमाकामनिर्जराबालतपांसि देवस्य ॥ २० ॥ Sarāgasamyamasamyamāsaryamākāmanirjarābālatapāṁsi daivasya
(20) 20. Restraint with attachment, restraint-cum-non-restraint, involuntary dissociation of karmas and austerities accompanied by perverted faith, cause the influx of lifekarma leading to celestial birth.
The first two have been explained. Persons confined and bound in prisons are forced to endure hunger, thirst, continence, sleeping on the floor, dirt and distress without any desire on their part. But these lead to dissociation of karmas. This is called involuntary dissociation (akāma nirjarā). Bālaapa is the observance by a person of perverted faith of austerities involving unscientific and terrible affliction of the body and characterized by fraudulent conduct. These cause ihe influx of karmas leading to celestial birth...
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