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ous and none auspicious. For in the guṇasthānas eighth etc. even the auspicious yoga causes the bondage of the inauspicious karmas like jñānāvaranīya etc.?
The bodily operations like violence, theft, incontinence etc. are cases of inauspicious body-yoga; those like mercy, donation, continence etc. cases of auspicious body-yoga. True but blameworthy speech, false speech, harsh speech and the like are cases of inauspicious speech-yoga; blameless true speech, soft speech, civilized speech and the like are cases of auspicious speech-yoga. Thinking ill of others, thinking of injuring others and the like are cases of inauspicious manas-yoga; thinking well of others, feeling happy on seeing others flourish and the like are cases of auspicious manas-yoga.
The auspicious yoga brings about a bondage of good karmas, the inauspicious yoga that of evil karmas—this statement made by the present aphorisms is of a relative import. For yoga occurring at the time when there is mildness of mental perturbation or passion is called auspicious yoga while that occurring at the time when there is acuteness of mental perturbation is called inauspicious yoga. Now just as at the time of inauspicious yoga—that is, while in the guṇasthānas first etc.all the karmas like jñānāvaraniya etc., whether good or evil, are bound down depending on the occasion, similarly at the time of auspicious yoga--that is, while in the gunasthānas sixth etc—all the karmas, whether good or evil, are bound down depending on the occasion. How then is it justified to make a separate mention of the auspicious yoga as cause-of-bondage in the case of good karmas and of the inauspicious yoga as cause-of-bondage in the case of evil karmas ? By way of answering this question it should be understood that the present statement chiefly relates to karmic bondage in respect of anubhāga or flavour. Thus at the time of the intensity of the auspicious yoga it so happens that the quantity
1. For this see Hindi Chauthā-Karmagrantha : A consideration of bondage in the case of different gunasthānas; also Hindi Dūsarā Karmagrantha.
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