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Samayasära
Chapter - 4
In this chapter, the author has unequivocally divulged the real and ultimate nature of the so called auspicious karma. The function of penance and such other activities is primarily the production of purity of the soul by the expulsion of the karma. Merit (punya) is an incidental by-product that accompanies the spiritual purification much in the same way as chaff is an incidental growth accompanying the corn which, alone, is the essential product of cultivation. And, therefore, it is not proper to contend the necessary concomitance of merit with penance.
In the end the position is made clear by a simple analogy. Bondage of the soul by karma is compared to fetters. And the bondage of inauspicious karma can be regarded as fetters made of iron, while that of auspicious karma is to be taken as fetters made of gold. But both are equally efficient to keep the soul bound to the cycles of births. They are on the same footing with reference to summom bonum which is final liberation and freedom from all bondage.
Both Auspicious as well as Inauspicious Karma constitute the Cycles of Births and Deaths कम्ममसुहं कुसीलं सुहकम्मं चावि जाणह सुसीलं।
किह तं होदि सुसीलं जं संसारं पवेसेदि॥१॥ kammamasuham kusīlam suhakammam cāvi jānaha susīlam.
kaha tam hodi susīlam jam samsāram pavesedi..I . Alafuuri fo furent auf all fo HE GATHI
बंधदि एवं जीवं सुहमसुहं वा कदं कम्मं ॥२॥ sovaņņiyam pi niyalam bamdhadi kālāyasam pi jaha purisam. bamdhadi evam jīvam suhamasuham vā kadam kammam..2
तम्हा दु कुसीलेहि य रागं मा काहि मा व संसग्गिं।
साधीणो हि विणासो कुसील-संसग्गि-रागेण ॥३॥ tamhā du kusīlehi ya rāgam mā kāhi mā va samsaggim.
sādhiņo hi viņāso kusila-saņsaggi-rāgena..3 जह णाम को वि पुरिसो कुच्छियसीलं जणं वियाणित्ता।
वज्जेदि तेण समयं संसग्गिं रागकरणं य॥४॥ jaha ņāma ko vi puriso kucchiyasīlam janam viyāṇittā.
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