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Bonding of Karma (Bandha).
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After hearing so much I responded with a smile, “Oh, now I understood the meaning of your remark.” I did not argue with him. I was realizing that neither he was expecting nor was it possible for him to get anything in return from that past event. To me it appeared simply an erroneous and futile conviction.
To make this story of Dayachand more meaningful in the context of these stanzas, I want to add here two paragraphs to narrate an imaginary event that might have happened after a few months.
On some other day during our gossip, Dayachand mentioned about the opening of a new grocery store named Model Provision Store in his neighborhood. He admired the price, services, and quality of the goods. He also mentioned that he gets all his kitchen requirements from that store. At this, I jokingly commented, “Oh, Model Provision Store provides you your food material. You eat the food provided by Model Provision Store.” He did not like this joking comment of mine. He got irritated and said, “What do you mean by this? Nobody provides me my food. I eat my hard earned food.”
At this point, in a joking tone I said, "If you can make Dr. Mogra as Prof. Mogra then why can't you accept that Model Provision Store provides you your food.” He realized my point and said, “Yes, you are right. You have opened my eyes. I did my duty of the clerk and received my salary as well as reward for the excellent work from my employer. Just as I eat my earning, Dr. Mogra also became professor by virtue of his own ability. My ego is baseless and futile. It is not helping me in any way.”
One may ignore or laugh at the notion of Dayachand. But Ācārya Kundakunda wants to explain through these stanzas that many of us become Dayachand and by ignorance take credit (or discredit) in providing the worldly happiness (or unhappiness) to others. Through these stanzas Ācārya Kundakunda clarifies that for
