Samayasara

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

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SAMAYASARA.
so a mundane soul is the auxiliary cause of bondage of meritorious or demeritorious Karmas.
सामरणपच्चया खलु चउरो भएणति बंधकत्तारो। मिच्छत्तं अविरमणं कसायजोगा य बोद्धव्वा ॥ ११६॥ सामान्यप्रत्ययाः खलु चत्वारो भण्यते बंधकर्तारः। मिथ्यात्वमविरमणं कषाययोगौ च बोडमाः ॥११६ ॥
116. Generally four causes have been said to be the makers of (Karmic) bondage. And they should be known to be wrong belief, vowlessness, passions and soul's vibratory activity.
Commentary.
Really speaking, soul is not even the auxiliary cause of bondage. The wrong belief, etc., which modify the soul's consciousness tre really the fruition, the resultant, of material Karmas called wrong belief, error-feeding and other kinds of passions and body-making Karmas, and the like. When a white-cloth has been dyed red, the whole and every thread of it produces the effect of redness ; similar
y the thought-activity of soul being painted by different classes of deluding Karma, etc., may be said to produce the effect of these deluding Karmas. A wise man will never take redness as belonging to and an inherent attribute of the white cotton cloth, so a rightthinker understands wrong belief etc., not as belonging to pure soul. but only as an effect of the intense or mild fruition-force of Karmic molecules bound with the soul. These effects are thus really material, and they, and not the pure soul, are the auxiliary causes of Karmic bondage.
तेसिं पुणोवि य इमो भणिदो भेदो दु तेरसवियप्पो। मिच्छादिठ्ठीआदी जाव सजोगिस्त चरमंतं ॥ ११७॥ तेषां पुनरपि चायं भणितो भेइस्तु ब्रयोदशविकल्पः। मिथ्यादृष्टयादिवत्सयोगिनश्चरमांतः ॥ ११७ ॥
117. And again of these (four), thirteen divisions have been described : from delusion up to the end of the (spiritual stage of) vibrating perfect soul.