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Chapter - 5
Samayasāra species out of eight and once in every life-time the eighth species viz. life-span-determining karma will be bound. Soul Degraded from the Ultimate Values is
subjected to Bondage जह पुरिसेणाहारो गहिदो परिणमदि सो अणेयविहं।
___ मंसवसारुहिरादी भावे उदरग्गिसंजुत्तो॥१६॥ jaha puriseņāhāro guhido pariņamadi so aņeyaviham. mamsavasāruhirādi bhāve udaraggisamjutto.. 16
तह णाणिस्स दु पुव्वं जे बद्धा पच्चया बहुवियप्पं ।
बझंते कम्मं ते णयपरिहीणा दु ते जीवा ॥ १७॥ taha ņāņissa du puvvam je baddhā paccayā bahuviyappam.
bajjhamte kammam te nayaparihīņā du te jīvā..17
(Jaha purisena gahido āhāro) Just as food materials consumed by a person (udaraggi-samjutto) and acted upon by digestive juices from the organs of the digestive system, (so mamsa-vasā-ruhirādi bhāve aneyaviham parinamadi) are metabolized and converted into flesh, blood, marrow and various other bodily factors.
(Taha) In the same way (nanissa du puvvam baddhā paccayā) dravya karma bounded earlier (pre-enlightenment] by the enlightened soul (te bahuviyappum kammam bajjhamte) become the conditions of bondage of various species of karma (te du jīva ņayaparihiņā) such a soul is degraded and has fallen from the ultimate values. Annotations :
These are the concluding verses of this (fifth) chapter, on the subject of influx of karmic matter (āśrava). Having emphatically established in the preceding verses that an enlightened person with right vision (samyagdrsti), who has suppressed or destroyed the beginningless perverted attitude, is free from bondage, the author introduces special conditions of bondage for such a soul. An aspirant climbing the ladder of spiritual purification is also subject to falls and degradations. We have stated that the karma does not yield its fruit as soon as it is bound but remains inactive for some time. It delivers its fruit when it comes to the state of rise (udaya) from the state of non-production (sattā). Thus, an enlightened person might
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