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SAMAYASARA.
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Commentary. When a person becomes a right believer and a right knower of true principles, and realizes the discrimination between the true and real nature of soul and non-soul he is at first a right believer of the subsidential kind. Wrong belief and error-feeding passions karmas, which are not yet destroyed, but made to subside, simply exist without producing any.effect like a clod of earth. If he is firm in right belief he will not allow them to operate again and will save himself from relapsing into wrong belief. He will, then, transform himself into a right believer of the destructive subsidential kind. There-afterwards, if he happens to be in the presence of an Omniscient or a saint with full scriptural knowledge, he will remove all right-belief preventing Karmas from existence in the soul, and will become a right believer of the destructiva description. He could never again relapse into perverse belief and shall soon obtain Liberation. Material Karmas cannot disturb the thought-activity of soul, unless they operate, and the soul is not strong enough to resist their operation. One should not, therefore, be afraid of Karmas merely in existence, but must try to be strong in soul-power in order to resist their operation, and to let them be exhausted and shed off.
चहुविह अणेयभेयं वंधते णाणदंसणंगुणेहिं । समये समये जमा तेण अवंधुत्ति णाणी दु ॥ १७७॥ चतुर्विधा अनेकभेदं बध्नति ज्ञानदर्शनगुणाभ्याम् । समये समये यस्मात् तेनाबंध इति ज्ञानी तु ॥ १७७ ॥
177. As those which are of four kinds (wrong-belief, vowlessness, passions and vibratory activity) bind the soul every moment with many kinds of Karmas with the help of the soul's attributes of conation and knowledge (love and hatred), therefore the knowing soul (attentive to itself) is certainly incapable of being bound by Karmas.
Commentary.
The knowing soul when attentive to itself is free from bondage. The previously bound Karmas are really the auxiliary cause of the inflow of fresh Karmas. Soul by itself does neither take in, nor bird ary Kain.as at all. It is really free from all inflow and
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