Samayasara

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

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134. Whatever thought-activity the soul causes, it becomes the doer of that thought-activity. That (thoughtactivity is) full of (right) knowledge in a soul with (right) knowledge (and is) full of wrong knowledge in one with perverse knowledge.
Commentary.
Soul being a substance is subject to constant modifications. He who has subdued wrong belief and error-feeding passions has been freed from the effects of wrong knowledge. Then all his conscious thought-activities are right and he always modifies into right thoughts. He who is under operation of wrong belief and error-feeding passions has perverse knowledge, and all his thoughtactivities will be wrongly directed, away from the path of Liberation.
अण्णाणमश्रो भावो अाणि कुणदि तेरा कम्माणि । QIQASÀ TIÊTEA Z U SUÎÊ A&I Z SFANÍŒ U ? ZYU अज्ञानमयो भावोऽज्ञानिनः करोति तेन कर्माणि । ज्ञानमयो ज्ञानिनस्तु न करोति तस्मात्तु कर्माणि ॥ १३५ ॥
135. The thought-activity of the perverse soul (is) full of wrong knowledge, by that it binds Karmas; while in the soul with right knowledge, (it) is full of right knowledge and therefore it does not bind Karmas.
Commentary.
The author here chiefly refers to that bondage which is the cause of an infinite cycle of mundane existences, and not merely to a mild bondage in a right-believer who must cast off all his Karmas one day, even if he will be going on binding them according to rules of bondage in spiritual stages. Thus a wrong-believer identifies himself with non-self modifications and maintaining his soul as angry, proud, deceitful, greedy and with other impure thoughtactivities binds strong Karmas; while a right-believer who is fully convinced of the true nature of soul, as quite equal to the status of a liberated soul, and without any passions and vibrations, and who has found his goal of self-realisation, does not bind such Karmas. He is really on the path to liberation and is gradually freeing himself from Karmic bondage.