Samayasara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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76. But when by this soul is realised the special difference between the (pure) soul and the (thought-activity causing) inflow, then there is) no bondage in that (soul).
Commentary. Here is emphasised the fact that the knower of Truth is free from bondage and that when knowledge of the truth about soul is acquired, bondage, which is the cause of infinite mundane lives, ceases. When a person realises the purity of his soul and knows that the thought-activities causing inflow of Karmas are not his, but are due to deluding Karmas bound with his soul, he gives them up, and bondage slackens or ceases. Then he becomes a rightbeliever, totally free from the bondage of the strong Karmas which are bound by ignorance and deep-rooted wrong belief. A rightbeliever may be said to be free even now, because he knows the path, and must follow it so long as he retains the right belief,
णादूण आसवाणं असुचित्तं च विवरीयभावं च । दुक्खस्स कारणं ति य तदो णियत्तिं कुरणदि जीवो ॥७७॥ ज्ञात्वा प्रास्रवाणामशुचित्वं च विपरीतभावं च । दुःखस्य कारणानीति च ततो निवृत्तिं करोति जीवः ॥७७ ॥
77. (When the soul) has known the impurity of inflowthoughts and (their) contrariety (to the soul) and (their being) causes of mundane misery, then the soul turns back from them,
Commentary. A wrong believer who indulges in impure thought-activities does not recognise them to be foreign to his own inner essence, A right-believer knows that anger and other passions are impure, quite contrary to the nature of his soul, and also that they are the causes of physical sufferings, and that if they do not delude him from Himself, he cannot suffer trouble in the four conditions of 'existence. From the moment that he thus believes them to be his real enemies, his intimacy with, and friendly attitude towards them, ceases and he determines to be freed from them as soon as possible Right belief spells victory over the passions ; wrong belief and error-feeding passions are at once brought under control. Though a right-believer, without vows in the 4th spiritual stage, and with only partial vows in the 5th stage, has passionate activities of the