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SAMAYASARA
vatthassa sedabhāvo jaha ņāsedi malavimelaņācchanno taha du kasāyācchannaṁ cārittam hodi ņādavvan (159) वस्त्रस्य श्वेतभावो यथा नश्यति मलविमेलनाच्छन्नः।
तथा तु कषायावच्छन्नं चारित्रं भवति ज्ञातव्यम् ॥१५९॥
157, 158 and 159. As the whiteness of cloth is destroyed by its being covered with dirt, so let it be known that right faith is blurred by wrong belief. As the whiteness of cloth is destroyed by its being covered with dirt, so let it be known that right knowledge is destroyed, when clouded by nescience. As the whiteness of cloth is destroyed by its being covered with dirt. so let it be known that right conduct becomes perverted when vitiated by soul-soiling passions.
COMMENTARY
Faith. knowledge and conduct, so long as they are true constitute the path to mokşa. But when they are perverted by the influence of corresponding karmic materials, they get deflected from the right path dragging the Self to samsāra. Thus the pure manifestations of the Self get destroyed by the influence of karmas jusi as a white cloth gets soiled by impurities.
सो सधणाणदरिसी कम्मरयेण णिएण ओच्छण्णो । संसारसमावण्णो विजाणदि सव्वदो सव्वं ॥१६०॥ so savvanānadarist kammarayeņa nieņa occhanpo samsarasamāvanno pa vijanadi savvado savvam (160) स सर्वज्ञानदर्शी कर्मरक्सा निजेनावच्छन्नः । संसारसमापनो न विजानाति सर्वतः सर्वे ॥१६०॥
160. The Self who is by nature all-knowing and allperceiving when soiled by his own karmas is dragged on towards sannsāra the cycle of births and deaths, and becomes incapable of knowing all things completely.
सम्मत्तपडिणिबदं मिच्छत्तं जिणवरेहि परिकहियं । तस्सोदयण जीवो मिन्याधिट्ठित्ति णादव्वो ॥१६१॥ sammattapadiņibaddham micchattam jiņavarehi parikahiyam tassodayeņa jīvo micchaditthitti, ņādavpo (161)
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