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INFLUX OF INAUSPICIOUS NAME-KARMAS
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Is that alone the influx of life in heaven? No:! :
Faretra
i ll en Samyaklvam ca i . (21) 21. Right belief also (is the cause of influx of life-karma leading to celestial birth).
What? 'Influx of heavenly life' is supplied from the previous sutra. Though it is mentioned in general as life in heaven, it means life in the higher heavens commencing from Saudharma Kalpa. How is it? It is because 'right faith' is mentioned separately. If so the rule enunciated in the previous sutra would apply uniformly without any distinction. By that it would mean that restraint with attachment and restraint-cumnon-restraint also lead to the life-duration of Residential devas etc. No. For in the absence of right faith, these names (restraint with attachment and restraint-cum-non-restraint) do not arise. Hence these two are included herein. The purport is that these also cause the influx of life-karma leading to birth in Saudharma Kalpa and so on.
The causes of influx of physique-making karmas have to be explained next. First the influx of inauspicious physiquemaking or name-karmas is described...
योगवक्रता विसंवादनं चाशुभस्य नाम्नः #22 11 Yogavakratā visamvādanaṁ cāśubhasya nāmnaḥ (22) 22. Crooked activities and deception cause the influx of inauspicious physique-making karmas,
Activity has been explained as of three kinds. 'Vakratā' is crookedness, and hence crookedness of activity. 'Visanvādana' is deceiving others. Now these are not two different things. In fact these are the same. Crookedness is itself misleading others. Of course, it is true. But there is this difference.
1 Right belief is mentioned separately. Hence persons with right faith (except those whose bondage of life-karma has been accomplished prior to their attainment of right belief) will be reborn among the fourth order of devas and not among the three lower orders, namely the Residential, the Peripatetic and the Stellar devas. Those practising restraint with attachment and restraint-cumnon-restraint are also characterized by right belief. Hence they also will be reborn in the higher heavens of Saudharma Kalpa and so on and not among the three lower orders of celestial beings.
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