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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
matijñānāvarana karma and which proceeds on the basis of the physical groupings that go to constitute a manas-is yoga pertaining to manas.
It is this very threefold yoga that is called asrava or inflow. The reason why yoga is called asrava or inflow is that it is through yoga that the physical groupings which go to constitute karma flow into a soul—that is, get associated with it in the form of karma. Just as the mouth of a tunnel etc. through which water enters a pond is called asrava or inflow because it is the cause of asrava or inflow (of water), similarly, yoga is called āsrava or inflow because it is the cause of an āsrava or inflow of karma. 1-2.
"The auspicious yoga is ásrava or cause-of-bondage in the case of punya or good karmas. 3.
And the inauspicious yoga is āsrava in the case of pāpa or evil karmas. 4.
All the three yogas-viz. body-yoga etc. are auspicious as well as inauspicious.
The auspicious or inauspicious character of yoga depends on the auspicious or inauspicious character of the accompanying mental feeling. The yoga directed towards an auspicious purpose is auspicious, that directed towards an inauspicious purpose is inauspicious. The auspicious or inauspicious character of yoga does not depend on the auspicious or inauspicious character of the effect concerned—that is, the concerned karmic bondage; for had that been so all the yoga would have turned out to be inauspici
1. In the place of the aphorisms 3 and 4 the Digambara texts have a single aphorism in the form 'subhah punyasyāśubhah pāpasya’ But in connection with a discussion of these aphorisms the Rājavārtika says, 'tatah sūtradvayam anarthakam', (see p. 248, commentary on the Vārtika 7.) From this statement it appears that the commentators wrote hese aphorisms together and then commented on them while those responsible for the copying or printing of the text, when they saw that the aphorisms in question and so also the comments on them went together, thought that these are not two aphorisms but a single one and so gave a single serial number to them both.
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