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SAMAYASĀRA 171. When the Self's cognitive quality is at its lowest stage it is liable to alternative alien modifications whether good or bad. Therefore in either case the Self is called the binder of karmas.
COMMENTARY Knowledge is the essential quality of the Self. So long as this quality is strong and intense, the Self is unassailable by external influences, but when this quality is at its weakest point, the Self becomes easily influenced by alien conditions. In that case the Self will get modified from its own intrinsic nature according to the nature of the influence, good or bad. In either case the result will be bondage, though it is emphasised that both śubhabhāva and aśubha-bhāva respectively lead to punya and pāpa which both lead to asrava and bandha. But suddha-bhāva alone avoids āstava and bandha.
दसणणाणचरितं जे परिणमदे जहण्णभावेण ।
णाणी तेण दु बज्झदि पोग्गलकम्मेण विविहेण ॥१७२॥ damsaņaņāņacarittaṁ jam pariņamade jahannbhāveņa nāņi teņa du bajjhadi poggala kammeņa vivihena (172)
दर्शनज्ञानचारित्रं यत्परिणमते जघन्यभावेन ।
ज्ञानी तेन तु बध्यते पुद्गलकर्मणा विविधेन ॥१७२॥ 172. When the manifestation of Right Belief, Right Knowledge, and Right Conduct is at its lowest, the Self, the Knower, is bound by various types of (good) karmic materials.
COMMENTARY The Self here is in passession of ratnatraya the three jewels. Since the three jewels are in a very low degree of efficiency, bondage is predicated of the Self and yet the karmas that will bind him are only the punya karmas, karmic materials of the good type capable of producing happiness.
सव्वे पुन्वणिबद्धा दु पच्चया संति सम्मादिहिस्स।
उवभोगप्पाओगं बंधते कम्मभावेण ॥१७३॥ savve puvvaạibaddha du paccaya samti sammādițțhissa uvaogappãogam bamdhaṁte kammabhāveņa (173)
सर्वे पूर्वनिबद्धास्तु प्रत्ययाः सन्ति सम्यग्दृष्टेः । उपयोगप्रायोग्यं बध्नन्ति कर्मभावेन ॥१७३॥
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