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Commentary.
Love, hatred, etc., are the motive causes which bring about the bondage of Karmas. When a person forgets the real point of view, which sees a soul as really full of all-knowledge, peace and happiness he gets enamoured of sensual pleasures. A right believer should try to keep his attention ever fixed upon his own pure soul, with the help of pure and real view-point. His pure thought-activity then will protect him from such bondage as would happen if he were engaged in worldly pursuits. If he is in the very advanced stage of a saint and is fully absorbed in his self-realisation without any paint of a light passion, he will not bind any Karma of even the least duration of one antar-muhúrta, in the 11th or the 12th stage. In the lower stages he may bind some Karmas according to the degree and kind of the thoughts entertained. Self-absorbed souls have such pure thought-activity that the slight bondage in them is negligible. Those who want to be free from inflow and bondage, must ever keep in view the real stand-point and realise themselves as Pure Souls, Samayasára. Practice will make him pure and will raise him to the most exalted position of an Omniscient.
CHAPTER VI.
Checking of Karmas (Samvara). उवोगे उवओगो कोहादिसुणस्थि कोवि उवयोगो। कोहे कोहो चेव हि उवओगे णत्थि खलु कोहो ॥ १८८॥ उपयोगे उपयोगः क्रोधादिषु नास्ति कोप्युपयोगः। क्रोधे क्रोधश्चैव हि उपयोगे नास्ति खलु क्रोधः ॥ १८८॥
188. (Pure) conscious attentiveness (is) in the (pure) soul. In anger, etc., there is no (pure) soul whatever. And indeed really anger (is) in anger itself. Certainly there is no anger in the (pure) soul.
Commentary. With reference to a soul affected with anger-passion-Karma-inoperation, the conscious attentiveness of the soul is called anger. Really the soul is consciousness; anger is the fruition force of Karmic matter. Anger is not its attribute. By self-analysis it will
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