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thought-activities according to the operation of Karmas. And thus its thought-activities will be painted by wrong belief, passions, etc., which may be called love, hatred and delusion (Rága-Dvesha-Moha). A seeker of Truth must improve his knowledge and will-power so that he may not be affected by operation of Karmas. A wrong believer by continuous study, by thinking of the nature of soul and non-soul, devotion to pure soul, and by other pure activities, may increase his soul power and clearness of his thought-activity so much that the fruition-force of wrong belief and other Karmas, is decreased. And by such continuous efforts, Karmas of wrong belief and error-feeding passions are brought under subsidence at least for an Antar Muhúrta, and during such period he becomes a right believer of a subsidential kind. If, after an Antar-Muhúrta, he is able to retain his belief, his belief becomes destructive subsidential right belief. In that condition it is only the slightest form of wrong-belief Karma called Samyaktva Prakriti, which operates and affects the thought-activity of the soul; while other Karmas such as error-feeding passions, and wrong, and mixed belief Karma when operative, fall off without in any way affecting the soul's thought-activity. These operative Karmas without the corresponding thought-activity of the soul cannot be the cause of the bringing in of new karmic molecules.
णत्थि दु आसववंधो सम्मादिहिस्स पासवणिरोहो । संते पुव्वणिवद्धे जाणदि सो ते अवंधतो ॥ १७३ ॥ नस्तस्त्वावधौ सम्यग्दृष्टेरास्रवनिरोधः। संति पूर्वनिबद्धानि जानाति स तान्यवध्नन् ॥ १७३ ॥
173. But there is no inflow (or) bondage in a right believing soul. There is the checking of inflow (in it.) Such (right believer) being unbound by them (the new Karmas) (merely) knows the existence of the previously bound Karmas.
Commentary. Right belief begins from the 4th Spiritual stage. The soul so long as it is there is incapable of bondage by the Karmas which are peculiar to the lower stages. But it is capable of bondage by Karmas operating in the higher stages.
From 4th to the 14th stage, the soul is exempted from bondage by 41, 51, 55, 61, 62, 98, 103, 119, 119, 119, 120 prakritis or subdivisions of the 8 Karmas, respectively.
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