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अध्याय-९
CHAPTER-9
STOPPAGE AND SHEDDING OF KARMAS
Bondage (bandha) has been described. The next thing to be explained is stoppage (samvara) of karmas.
आस्त्रवनिरोधः संवरः ॥१॥
[ 3115fRTET: ] 341Ha go FARTET (Tch) [HCR: ] Hat अर्थात् आत्मा में जिन कारणों से कर्मों का आस्रव होता है उन कारणों को दूर करने से कर्मों का आना रुक जाता है, उसे संवर कहते हैं।
The obstruction (nirodha) of influx (āsrava) is stoppage (samvara).
Influx (āsrava) which is the cause of taking in of new karmic matter has been explained. The obstruction of the inflow of karmic matter is called stoppage (samvara). It is of two kinds, psychic-stoppage (bhāva samvara) and material-stoppage (dravya samvara). The cessation of activities that lead to transmigration is psychic-stoppage (bhāva samvara). When these activities are checked, the taking in of karmic matter is cut off or interrupted; this is material-stoppage (dravya samvara). Now this is investigated. What karmas are stopped in what stages of spiritual development - guṇasthāna (see explanation to sūtra 1-8)? The self that is subjugated by the karma which causes false belief is the misbeliever or "deluded' – mithyādrsți. That karma which flows into the soul chiefly on account of wrong-belief (mithyādarśana) is cut off in case of those in higher gunasthāna. Hence stoppage of that karma prevails in the beings from the second stage of spiritual development,
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