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ly, the right believer engaged in many kinds of activity not having attachment, etc., in his conscious attention, is never bound by the dust (of karmas).
Commentary.
When right belief is once acquired, the possessor is sure to get Liberation. According to Jain Philosophy, even the slightest passion which is found in a saint of the 10th spiritual stage causes bondage of karmas. Any impure passionate thought-activity must result in bondage of karmas. Whenever a soul is disposed towards self-realisation, it has even in the lower stages, a pure thoughtactivity, with very mild passion-paint. Even in the 4th stage such a soul will bind Karmas, but the duration of Karmas thus bound (except that of good age Karma) will be less, when there is strong passion paint. If one thinks that being a right believer he is not subject to Karmic bondage whether he acts rightly or wrongly his ideas and actions are perverse. A right believer really takes special care of all the actions of his mind, body and speech. He is full of compassion for all beings, is very considerate and calm in temper, is not attached to worldly pleasures, and is fully cognizant of the consequence of Karmas, merits and demerits.
जो मरादि हिंसामिय हिंसिज्जामिय परेहिं सत्तेहिं । सो मूढो अण्णाणी गाणी एत्तोदु विवरीदो ॥ २६२॥
यो मन्यते हिनस्मि हिंस्ये च परैः सत्वैः ।
स मूढोऽज्ञानी ज्ञान्यतस्तु विपरीतः ॥ २६२ ॥
262. He, who thinks that I kill,' or 'I am killed' by other beings, is foolish and ignorant. The knower is opposed to such thoughts.
Commentary.
It is from practical point of view that one says, "I have killed," or "I have been killed." From the real point of view, this is not correct. "I," the soul being immaterial and everlasting cannot be killed by any one. The material vitalities which keep a soul confined in a body may be destroyed. Such destruction is called death, or killing. A right believer knows that no one can kill him, till his own age Karma is exhausted; neither can he
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