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-depending on a difference as to acuteness, mildness, knowingliness, unknowingliness, exertion, adhikaraṇa. 7.
The present aphorism is aimed at demonstrating as to what brings it about that even in case the above-mentioned asravas or causes-of-bondage like violence, operations of indriyas, samyaktvakriyā etc. are equally present there the resulting karmic bondage displays a peculiarity.
Thus even when the external cause-of-bondage is the same the resulting karmic bondage is different depending on whether the accompanying mental state is acute or mild. For example, when two persons view the same spectacle, one with a sense of mild attachment, the other with a sense of acute attachment, then there is a relatively more acute karmic bondage in the case of the latter. Knowingliness means undertaking an operation intentionally, unknowingliness means undertaking it unintentionally. Here again even when the external operation is the same there is a difference in the resulting karmic bondage depending on whether this operation is undertaken knowingly or unknowingly. For example, one person taking a deer to be a deer shoots it down with an arrow and another person, while aiming at a lifeless target, shoots down by mistake a deer that comes in between; here karmic bondage in the case of the conscious killer is more acute than that in the case of the mistaking one. A difference as to exertion or energy too is a cause of difference in the karmic bondage concerned. For example, whether it be a good performance like donation, service etc. or an evil performance like violence, theft etc. an energetic person undertakes it more conveniently and enthusiastically than a weakling. Hence karmic bondage—whether good or evil-in the case of a weakling is relatively milder than that in the case of an energetic person.
So many adhikaraņas of the form of jīva and ajīva are going to be described just below; depending on a difference as to them there is a difference as to karmic bondage. For example, in connection with performing evil acts like violence, theft etc. and good acts like protecting others etc. suppose one person is in
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