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SAMAYSARA Vatthassa sedabhāvo jaha näsedi malavimelanāchchanno Taha du kasayachchannam charittam hodi nādavvam (159)
वस्त्रस्य श्वेतभावो यथा नश्यति मलविमेलनाच्छन्न ।
तथा तु कषायावच्छन्न चारित्र 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 moksha 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 just as a white cloth gets soiled by impurities
सो सव्वणाणदरिसी कम्मरयेण णिएण ओच्छण्णो ।
ससारसमावण्णो णविजाणदि सव्वदो सव्व ॥१६०॥ So savvanānadarısı kammarāyena niyena ochchanno Samsārasamāvanno navi jänadı savvado savvam (160)
स सर्वज्ञानदर्शी कर्मरजसा निजेनावच्छन्न ।
ससारसमापन्नो न विजानाति सर्वत सर्व ॥१६०॥ 160 The Self who is by nature all-knowing and all-perceiving when soiled by his own karmas is dragged on towards samsāra the cycle of births and deaths, and becomes incapable of knowing all things completely
सम्मत्तपडिणिबद्ध मिच्छत्त जिणवरेहि परिकहिय ।
तस्सोदयेण जीवो मिच्छादिट्ठित्ति णादव्वो ॥१६॥ Sammattapadınıbaddham michchattam jinavarehi parikahıyam Tassodayena jīvo michchaditthitti, nādavvo
(161),
