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Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
point described in stanza 193. Ācārya Kundakunda says that just as a medical doctor does not die due to the appropriate handling of poisonous medicine, or just as there may be some special persons who do not get intoxicated by the intake of some amount of wine without any desire for getting intoxicated, in the same way an enlightened being (SamyagDrști) does not get bonded with the new Kārmika bonding even while he/she is engaged in experiencing or consuming the animate or inanimate object as the fruits of the previously bonded Karma.
It is very rare and difficult to survive after consuming poison and it is also very rare and difficult to remain sober after taking wine. In this sense these rare analogies convey that it is very rare and difficult for a worldly being to remain un-bonded with new Karma at the time of experiencing the fruits of the previously bonded Karma. Ācārya Kundakunda writes that such rare events happen only to the spiritually developed beings who realize that they are not the owner or doer of the actions of body and mind.
Through these two stanzas Ācārya Kundakunda also wants to show that just as it is not impossible for some persons to survive even after consuming poison or just as it is not impossible for some persons to remain sober even after consuming wine without any desire to get intoxicated, in the same way it is not impossible for some special living beings to be free from new Kārmika bonding even while consuming or experiencing the fruits of the previously bonded Karma. Who are such special ones? As discussed earlier, Ācārya Kundakunda says that enlightened beings (SamyagDrști or Jñānī) have such special characteristics.
सेवंतो वि ण सेवदि असेवमाणो वि सेवगो कोई। TRYGT *fa un PRUT fer hafa 1119711 Sevanto vi na sevadi asevamāṇo vi sevago koī. Pagaranacetthā kassa vi na ya pāyarano tti so hodi. ||197||| सेवमानोऽपि न सेवते असेवमानोऽपि सेवकः कश्चित् ।
