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strong, and causes continuous infinite worldly transmigrations. Thus it is, that sense-enjoyment by right believers does not tend to forge bondage, it rather tends" to shed” karmas after their operation. Moreover, a right believer will shed more and become bound to less karmas.
One should not however misinterpret the above Gatha to justify the false notion that a right believer may be quite regardless of the rules of right conduct without risking a bondage by such karmas as he is intentionally guilty of. A right believer cannot be led away by such a false notion. He always wishes to have a pure activity of thought, but owing to his karmas bound in the past he has occasionally to suffer from passionate thought-activity. A right believer, strictly speaking from the real point of view, realises his soul as quite free from the enjoyment of any sense objects and this view is the cause of shedding of karmas prematurely.
Wrong believers are always binders of karmas, while the right believers shed them off as they are on the path of liberation. The fundamental point of distinction is that right belief means and connotes a right outlook of the soul : the Karma, whether good or bad, does not affect the pure vibrations of the thought-activities of the soul ; it cannot therefore forge a bondage for it and its bad effects can in no case be assimilated by the soul. The deep conviction of the harmful nature of Karma, helps to dissipate the worst aspect of its impress; the havoc which gnaws the soul. The action is conscious and its effects are therefore merely transient and can be melted by the counter-actions of the vibrations of spiritual righteousness born of right belief. Consider wrong belief as connoting ignorance, the conscious ignorance, which remaining unperceived is still more dangerous. It does not realize the nature of Karma, which is thus free to forge its bondage and implant itself in the soul to subdue and suppress its righteous vibrations. All the bad impressions of Karma are assimilated by the soul and hence unceasing transmigration ; till in the process of evolution, the soul attains to its righteous outlook, which can only be produced by right belief.
दव्वे उवभुजते णियमा जायदि सुहं च दुक्खं च । तं सुहदुःखमुदिएणं वेददि अह णिज्जरं जादि ॥ २०३॥ द्रव्ये उपभुज्यमाने नियमाजायते सुखं च दुःखं च । तं सुखदुःखमुदीर्ण वेदयते अथ निर्जरां याति ॥ २०३ ॥
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