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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
एदेण कारणेण दु सम्मादिट्टी अबंधगो होदि ।
आसवभावाभावे ण पच्चया बंधगा भणिदा ॥ १८३॥ एतेन कारणेन तु सम्यग्दृष्टिरबंधको भवति । आस्रवभावाभावे न प्रत्यया बंधका भणिताः ॥ १८३ ॥
183. By these reasons indeed, a right believer is not the binder of Karmas. In the absence of thought inflow the Karmas are not said to be the binders.
___Commentary. The material molecules of deluding Karma being merely bound up in a soul, do not affect him, unless they come into operation and the soul's thought-activity is not strong enough to resist their operation. Where there is impure thought-activity there is bondage. Till the !0th spiritual stage, seven Karmas are being bound every moment by the soul, but age-karma is bound only on certain occasions. It is bound in one of the 8 declining times (vide Gommatsāra Jiva Kanda Gatha 518, page 258).
रागो दोसो मोहो य आसवा णस्थि सम्मदिहिस्स। तमा आसवभावेण विणा हेदू ण पच्चया होति ॥ १८४ ॥ रागो द्वेषो मोहश्च प्रास्रवा न सन्ति सम्यग्दृष्टेः । तस्मादास्रव भावेन विना हेतवो न प्रत्यया भवंति ॥ १८४ ॥
184. Love, hatred, and delusion, (thought) inflow, is not found in the right believer. Therefore in the absence of thought inflow, Karmas do not become the cause (of new bondage).
Commentary. A right believer, even in the 4th stage, is free from delusion, love and hatred, which are possible only in a wrong believer. In the absence of thought-activity of the above description, mere wrong belief and other Karmas existing in the soul, without operation, cannot cause inflow and bondage. It is impure thoughtactivity only, which is really the auxiliary cause of fresh Karmic bondage. That bondage which is due to partial vow-preventing passions etc., is not here taken into consideration ; because it is really not the cause of keeping a soul long in mundane existences.
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