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SAMAYASARA.
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It is the established rule. A mundane soul being already engaged in and interfused with matter, the material adjunct of the soul makes possible the bondage of soul by matter. The soul's own thought-activity assists in this result; but of course, cannot be and is not the primary cause to produce the Karmic matter, which binds the soul. Primary cause of material Karmic bondage is matter and that of conscious thought-activities is the soul.
चेदा दु पयडियटुं उप्पज्जदि विणस्सदि । पयडीवि चेदयटुं उप्पज्जदि विणस्सदि ॥ ३३२ ॥ चेतयिता तु प्रकृत्यर्थमुत्पद्यते विनश्यति । प्रकृतिरपि चेतकार्थमुत्पद्यते विनश्यति ॥ ३३२ ॥
332. But the soul on account of the operation of past Karmas is born and dies. And Karmas also are produced (and) destroyed by action of soul.
एवं वंधो दुराहपि अण्णोएणपच्चयाण हवे। अप्पणो पयडि एय संसारो तेण जायदे ॥ ३३३॥ एवं बंधो द्वयोरपि प्रत्यययोर्भवेत् । आत्मनः प्रकृतिश्च संसारस्तेन जायते ॥ ३३३ ॥
333. The bondage of the two, of the soul and the Karmas, is produced by soul and Karma each being auxiliary cause of the other. Thus is produced the Samsára, worldly wandering.
Commentary. The impure thought-activity of the soul is the auxiliary cause of the bondage of fresh Karmas. The past Karmic operation is the auxiliary cause of new impure thought activity. Thus from bondage to bondage the deluded soul wanders in mundane existences. Soul and Karmic matter both are auxiliary causes to each other in the phenomena of mundane life.
जाएसो पयडियटुं चेदगो ण विमुंचदि । भयाणभो हवे ता मिच्छादिट्ठी भसंजदो ॥ ३३४॥
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