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202. All the enjoyment, through senses, of things inanimate and animate, which is had by a right believer is for the shedding of karmas.
Commentary, A distinction is here drawn between the enjoyment by one who holds wrong belief and by one who holds right belief. The former is engrossed in pleasure, or deeply afflicted with pain, arising from the operation of karma, whether good or bad ; the latter, while enjoying pleasure and suffering pain, is not under the perverse belief that the aim of life is the gratification of senses. His right belief is a light, which shows him that worldly pleasures are fleeting and unsatisfying ; that real happiness is inherent in his soal and can be enjoyed only in self-realisation; and that both pleasure and pain are due to the operation of the Law of Karma. He is therefore neither overjoyed at pleasures nor over-grieved when in pain. He remains calm, and peacefully bears the fruits of his karmas. The right believer, who has attained to the sixth or to a higher spiritual stage, becomes quite unattached as regards worldly objects which he renounces at the time of his initiation as a monk. He takes food and meets all suffering in a calm and impassionate way. The right believers in the fourth and the fifth stages so long as they are in association with family and property, and are engaged in earning money, procuring and enjoying sense objects, and occupied in matters of administration, are not in a spirit of saintly unattachment. Still their love for agreeab and their aversion to disagreeable objects, cannot rightly be said to be due to wrong belief and error-feeding passions. They enjoy things as they come, but with no deliberate attachment to them as their aim of life. Their soul-power is not then strong enough to check the operation of passion-karmas and is therefore under the influence of karmas. As a rule, the bondage of karmas is caused by passions and by vibrations of the soul. There will be bondage to these right believers, no doubt, according to their intense or mild thought-paint (Leshyá), but they cannot bind those bad Karmas, wrong belief, error-feeding passions and hellish age, the one-sensedgenus, and the immobile body-making Karmas, etc., which are bound by wrong believers, even if they enjoy the same objects which are enjoyed by the wrong believers. This is so, because the right believers are free from the influence of strong passions in their thought activity. Bondage in a right believer does not become the cause of keeping him entangled in the world for ever ; his bondage must be cast off one day. The bondage in a wrong believer is very
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