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bondage. A seeker after Liberation must improve his soul-power in order to resist the operation of deluding Karma, which is the chief enemy of the mundane soul.
जमा दु जहरणादो णाणगुणादो पुणोवि परिणमदि। अगणतं णाणगुणो तेण दु सो बंधगो भणिदो ॥ १७८ ॥ यस्मात्तु जघन्यात् ज्ञानगुणात् पुनरपि परिणमते । अन्यत्वं ज्ञानगुणः तेन तु स बंधको भणितः ॥ १७८ ॥
178. And because the attribute of knowledge when in a low stage (below the 11th) is again modified into something else (Love, hatred) it is, in that view said to be the binder (of karmas).
Commentary. A person who has not attained the destructive stage of a rightbeliever, falls down for want of sufficient strength in his soul power from right belief into wrong belief. He is subjected to bondage of wrong belief and other karmas on account of his thought-activity being affected with strong delusion, attraction or repulsion, and is again attached to the world. It is the deluding karma which must be destroyed. As long as it has the least mastery over consciousness, no check of inflow of karmas is possible. A right believer should therefore believe himself to be the Pure Soul and should realise his own pure nature, by practising self-absorption. It is this conduct only which can weaken the passions and improve soul-power,
दंसणणाणचरित्तं जं परिणमदे जहएणभावेण । णाणी तेण दु वज्झदि पुग्गलकम्मेण विवहेण ॥ १७६ ॥ दर्शनज्ञानचारित्रं यत्परिणमते जघन्यभावेन । ज्ञानी तेन तु बध्यते पुद्गलकर्मणा विविधेन ॥ १७६ ॥ __ 179, When right belief, knowledge (and) conduct manifest (themselves) in a low degree, then the knower is bound by many kinds of karmic matter.
Commentary.
A right believer in the 4th stage of vowless-right-belief, has the least degree of right conduct. Unless all the passions are totally
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