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SAMAYASARA
263. Thus (the will to kill), the will to lie, to steal, to be unchaste and to acquire property (inordinately) leads to bondage of evil karmas.
'तहवि य सच्चे दत्ते बंभे अपरिगहत्तणे चेव ।
कीरइ अज्भवसाणं जं तेण दु बज्झए पुण्णं ॥ २६४ ॥ tahavi ya sacce datte bambhe aparigahattane ceva kirai ajjhavasāṇam jam teņa du bajjhae punnam (264) तथापि च सत्ये दत्ते ब्रह्मणि अपरिग्रहत्वे चैव । क्रियतेऽध्यवसानं यत्तेन तु बध्यते पुण्यम् ॥ २६४॥
264. Whereas (the will not to kill), the will not to lie, not to steal, not to be unchaste and not to acquire property (inordinately) leads to the bondage of good karmas.
CAMMENTARY
The same truth is conveyed by Christ through His teachings when he emphasises the inner purity of heart, "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." This clearly implies that the relisation of the divinity in man is necessarily conditioned by the purity of heart; whereas when the heart is impure, it brings about sin. The following words of Christ make this clear. "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shall not commit adultery, But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." St. Matthew V. 27 & 28.
Next it is pointed out that the objects in the external world can neither be the cause of karmic bondage.
वत्युं पडुच्च जं पुण अज्झवसाणं तु होदि जीवाणं ।
य वत्युदो दु बंधो अज्भवसाणेण बंधोत्ति ॥ २६५॥
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vatthum paducca jam puna ajjhavasāņam tu hodi jivāņaṁ na ya vatthudo du bandho ajjhavasanena bandhotti (265)
वस्तु प्रतीत्य यत्पुनरध्यवसानं तु भवति जीवानाम् ।
न च वस्तुतस्तु बन्धोऽध्यवसानेन बन्धोऽस्ति ॥२६५॥
265. Through in an empirical Self is always conditioned by an object in the external world. Nevertheless it is not that exter
'अवहे सच्चे दत्ते बम्हे ।
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