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Samayasüra
Chapter - 8
circle-the fruition of dravya karma leads to affective states of the soul [which is bhāva karma] and the affective psychic propensities become the condition for new bondage and the cycles go on ad infinitum.
The author uses a simple analogy to underline the intrinsic purity-desireless state of the soul. Just as a sphaṭika (crystal) which pure and colorless by itself, appears to be colored red (or blue or green] if it is associated with red [or blue or green] coloured external object. Much in the same way, the soul itself is inherently pure and inaffective but appears to be affective etc. as a result of the rise of desire etc.
An enlightened sage (vītarāga) becomes free from delusion and is unaffected by attachment, aversion and the like and that is why a vītaraga is totally free from bondage of karma. On the other hand, he who is overwhelmed by the rise of attachment, aversion and passions and cannot become free from desire becomes a victim of bondage of colour.
For self-realization, self and self alone is the goal. Anything other than self, as an ideal, would lead away the self from the path. Darśana, jñāna and conduct when conditioned by objects other than self may, in a way, lead to bondage. But if they are determined absolutely by self, then they form the direct antecedent of emancipation. From this it is clear that self-realization cannot be achieved by having even slightest attachment to external objects. Hence, the author emphasizes the importance of the effort to transcend even subtlemost kind of attachment. When the relation of the self to alien objects, either through attachment or ownership, is severed, then there is no possibility of desire springing up in the heart. No desire means no spiritual discord; spiritual harmony repels karma and prevention of karma means end of samsara i.e. emancipation. One who has the ideal of self-realization must, therefore, completely eradicate every kind of desire from his heart.
The essential ingredient of the direct and immediate path to self-realization is the state of vitaraga or non-attachment and freedom from desire. This is the meaning of the above verses and the same is the purport of the whole chapter.
True Nature of Pratikramaṇa
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