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Karmas which will in a way delay and obstruct the attainment of liberation, instead of expediting and facilitating it.
परमट्टवााहेरा जे ते अण्णाण पुराणमिच्छति । संसारगमणहेतुं विमोक्खहेतुं प्रयाता ॥ १६१ ॥ परमार्थबाह्या ये ते अज्ञानेन पुण्यमिच्छति । संसारगमनहेतुं विमोक्ष हेतुमजानंतः ।। १६१ ॥
161. Those who are beyond (realization of) the highest soul, owing to wrong knowledge, long for meritorious deeds, which (are) the causes of mundane wanderings. They do not know the Path of liberation.
Commentary.
Persons with perverse knowledge wrongly take the outward duties of saints, such as observation of complete vows and hard austerities, to be the path of liberation. Really all conduct involving activities of body, mind and speech in concern with other objects are voluntarily done by saints with good thoughts of noninjury, truth, chastity, etc. They are not the pure thought-activity. They are causes of bondage of meritorious Karmas. Besides this, those thoughts do not represent even the thought-activity which must be found in saints in their lowest, viz., 6th and 7th stages, because they are not purified by right belief. They being mixed with operation of wrong belief, cause bondage of Karmas which a wrong believer in the first stage is to bind. Their thought-paint is good; therefore, they bind meritorious Karmas with deep fruitionpower and some demeritorious Karma with mild fruition-power. A saint practising austerities for thousands of years without gaining true and real knowledge of self-realization can never be liberated : while a right-believing saint if he is fixed in self-absorption even for the period of an Antarmuhúrta can become Omniscient Conqueror. Therefore even attachment to merit must be given up.
जीवादी सदहणं सम्मत्तं तेसिमधिगमो गाणं । रागादी परिहरणं चरणं एसो दु मोक्खपहो ॥ १६२ ॥ जीवादिश्रद्धानं सम्यग्दर्शनं तेषामधिगमो ज्ञानं । रागादिपरिहरणं चरणं एष तु मोक्षपथः ॥ १६२ ॥
162. Belief in soul, etc., (9 categories) (is) right belief; the knowledge of them is right knowledge. The giving up
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