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Samayasara
Chapter - 5
energy mainfests itself suppressing or destroying the potency of the vision deluding karma. As soon as the effects of this deluding karma which, so far deluded the soul and kept it away from right world-view towards truth, or right predilection for truth is removed, the soul realizes its own true nature. This, itself, is enlightenment and the soul attains an unprecedented insight which it had been prevented from attaining from eternity. The soul is now clearly able to distinguish between its own psychic states and the defiling states of the alien karmic matter responsible for the delusion.
At this point of time, out of the four primal conditions of influx, the primordial one-the delusion of vision-has become ineffective. This immediately results in lowering the intensity of the passions and enhancing the ability of the soul to practise abstinence and right conduct. Out of the four categories of passions [according to the potency], the lifelong (anantānubandhi) that is the most virulent are no longer effective. However, the soul has to go a long way for the final consummation. It has to nullify all the other conditions of influx and bondage. This has to be done by further increasing its purity and augmenting the spiritual energy for right conduct.
Attainment of enlightenment enables the soul to clearly distinguish between the self and the non-self, and it is able to abandon its eternal infatuation for the alien. We have seen that the bondage of karma is determined by the bhāva karma and the reduced attachment for non-self enables an enlightened soul to block the influx. The karma which has already yielded its fruit cannot do any further harm and the absence of bhāva karma (attachment etc.) results in relative freedom from bondage of new karma for a samyagdṛṣṭi.
(The author explains what exactly is meant by the term samyagdṛṣṭi in a succeeding verse no. 5. This explanation is very important).
Freedom from Bondage is Relative चडविह अणेयभेयं बंधते णाणदंसणगुणेहिं । समये-समये जम्हा तेण अबंधो त्ति णाणी दु ॥ ७ ॥
cauviha aneyabheyam bamdhamte ṇāṇadamsaṇagunehim. samaye-samaye jamhā teņa abamdho tti ṇāṇī du..7
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