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activity with less accumulation and more annihilation of karmik matter is to be preferred to the one with more accumulation and less annihilation. This businesslike approach has been approved in discussion of Ardrakumar with Goshalaka:
Positive Contents of Jinism
ad a goat fag gzın, fazarsag arafa arg gå i एतावया बंभवति त्तिवृत्ते, तस्सोदयट्ठी समणे तिबेमि || 20
Without incurring new bondage and while annihilating the old ones and by casting aside wrong mentality (ggfa) Bhagwan Mahaveer has proved saviour of all. This is called Moksha schedule and its resultant acquisition Moksha (f) is considered as a gain by him.
Sootrakritaanga II-6 (20)
In the words of Geeta, the dexterity lies in so carrying out an activity that old bondage is discarded with little or no fresh bondage (2-50). The source sentence runs as follows in Acharanga I-104 : कुसले पुण्ण णो बद्धे नो मुक्के । It explicitly means-dexterious neither incurrs bondage nor is devoid of activity.
Thus path of Kriyavad is a difficult and complex one and at each and every step requires the serious application of decisive faculty of brain and the spirit. There cannot be any fixed set of universal rules in general for all the eventualities because at times a course may give adverse results as compared to an earlier occasion. In the words of Acaranga I-134 जे आसवा ते परिस्सवा जे परिस्सवा ते आसवा, जे अणासवा ते अपरिस्सा, जे अपरिस्सवा ते अणासवा । But this way suggested above is not impracticable or utopian because brave ones have treaded it पणया वीरा महावीहि सिद्धि पहं णेआउयं धुवं । Acaranga I, 21 & Sootra kritaanga 1-2 (21). Tirthankaras have shown the path of action without bondage for dexterious (एस मग्गे भरिएहि पवेदिते ara guà mafateret faaf 1) Acharanga I-74-79. And that is why it is said that every act of a self supporting man is
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