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Parasya nindārajñopahāsāḥ sadguralopanam, Sada addosakathanamātmanastu prašansanam. Sadasadguņaśansã ca svadosa-cchādanam tatha,
Jātyādibbi-r-madścètı, nicai-r-gotrāśravā ami. 2. 1-2. Censure, disregard and ridicule of others, the suppression of good qualities, the narration of existing and non-existing defects, self-praise, praise of existing and non-existing qualities, the concealing of one's own faults, also, conceit about one's origin (birth )-these are the * Aśravas, Sluices (gates ) for tho inflow of the Karma of being born in a low family.
Those who are capable of recognition of merit, who are devoid of conceit, who take delight in the study and preaching of True Religion, and those who are sincere devotees of a True God, a True Teacher, and of a True Dharma, are invariably, born in noble families; while those who are fond of defaming others and of extolling their own small merits, who perform evil deeds, who are negligent in the study and preaching of True Religion and those who are addicted to the adoration of wicked gods, wicked teachers and wicked Dharma, are usually born in low families.
Here, on account of his deep conceit for noble birth, Marici becomes fettered with the evil Karman of being born in a low family. As a result of this blunder, Marici had to suffer great hardships during many future lives. While experiencing such hardships oalmly, the molecules of art Nica gotra Karma, -A Karman producing birth in a low family,-are gradually getting destroyed; the remaining molecules of such a Karman may even be experienced during the commencement of his life in which he was to be a Tirthankara, as was the case with Sramapa Bhagavā Mahāvīra.
Karman is such an impartial and exacting instrument that it does not have predilection for any particular individual in this world Karman does not show any partiality in subjecting any
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