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CHALIER VIL
153
After describing the wearing down of material karmas the author next describes the consequential bhāva nirjara, the corresponding psychic result
दब्वे उवभुज्जते णियमा जायदि सुह च दुक्ख वा।
त सुहदु खमुदिण्ण वेददि अह णिज्जर जादि ॥१९४॥ Davve uvabhujjante niyamā jāyadı suham va dukkham vā Tam suha dukhhamudinnam vedadı aha nijjaram jādı (194)
द्रव्ये उपभुज्यमाने नियमाज्जायते सुख च दुख वा ।
त सुखदुःखमुदीर्ण वेदयते अथ निर्जरा याति ॥१९४॥ 194 Useful and enjoyable objects of the perceptual world when they are enjoyed by the right believer, inevitably produce pleasure or pain as determined by good or bad karma Since these pleasant or painful feelings are indifferently experienced by the right believer, they wear themselves down and this is nirjara
Next the power of knowledge is extolled जह विसम्वभुज्जता विज्जापुरिसा ण मरणमुवयति ।
पोग्गलकम्मस्सुदय तह भुजदि णेव वज्झदे णाणी ॥१९५॥ Jahavisamuva bhujjantā vijjā purisã na maranamuvayanti Poggalakammassudayam taha bhunjadi neva vajjhade nāni (195)
यथा विषमुपभुजाना विद्यापुरुषा न मरणमुपयान्ति ।
पुद्गलकर्मण उदय तथा भुडक्ते नैव बध्यते ज्ञानी ॥१९५॥ 195 Just as a person who is an expert in anti-poison lore, even though he takes poison, does not meet with death, even so when the karmic materials become mature and produce their inevitable results of pain and pleasure, the knowing Self with a neutral attitude experiences these but remains unbound
COMMENTARY
The very conditions which lead the unenlightened towards bondage are counteracted by the power of knowledge become defunct and disappear, in the case of the enlightened one
जह मज्ज पिवमाणो अरदिभावेण मज्जदि ण पुरिसो। दव्वुवभोगे अरदो णाणीवि ण बज्झदि तहेव ॥१९६।।
