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The Īryāpathika karman bound by monks is consumed within two samayas. The activity of monk is due to pramāda (carelessness) ari due to Yoga (activity).26 Teacher (Upadhyāya), serving his gana, well, will attain liberation. A monk transgressing prohibitions and enjoying prohibited objects, binds seven types of karman, except age-determining karman.28
In hundreds, thousands and millions of years, a hellish being does not cosume as much karman as a monk annihilates in an instant.
If a layman, having practised sāmāyika, stays in an upāśraya (monastery ), performs passional influx action and not an passionless influx because his self is attached to activity. A layman giving virtuous food to monks etc, brings about annihilation of karman. Even though the food is impure, the annihilation of karma :, he brings about is still greater than the inauspicious act he commits." If a monk gets an arșa and a physician gently cuts it off, in that physician binds karma where as the monk does not. 32 Again, if two equally strong men fight, the one whose karma: results in Viriya wins. A buyer and a seller bind karmas due to special cases of bying and selling. 34
Bhagavati mentions that whenever a person, who pronounces a false accusation is reborn as a man, he will have to endure, being treated in the same way.35
Effects of certain psychic states as well as laughing etc. activities, with regard to karma bondage, has been dealt in this text.
The one, subjugated by four passions, binds all eight types of karma except Age - determining karma:..36 The one, subjugated by his senses, binds only seven karmaprakstis like above. In the same way while laughing and becoming inquisitive, a living being binds seven types or eight types37. A person, having performed auspicious and blissful karmas, properly attains silver, gold etc. wealth38. Bhagavati also depicts that of two equal men, karmas are stronger with the one that lights a fire-body than with the one that extinguishes it.39
Now we come to such concepts, occurred in Bhagavati, as deal with the eight karmaprakệtis in terms of their bondage, duration, realisation and annihilation. The bondage of karma, has been treated in
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