Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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SARVODAYA TIRTHA
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Influx and Bondage
Delusion, attachment, malice, etc, which arise in the soul and the self transformation of the kārman vargana of matter into karma enshrouding knowledge, etc, constitute what may be called karma-influx This influx may be objective as well as subjective. The aptitudes of the soul which attract karma obstructing knowledge, etc, which form karma, are delusion, attachment, greed, etc., and these constitute subjective influx, and the transformation of karma varganā into karma form is objective influx 33
When with the instrumentality of delusion, attachment, greed, etc., the karma particles mix up with the space points of the soul, like water mixing up with water, it is called bondage This also takes two forms, viz, objective and subjective. The beneficial and non-beneficial subjective factors of the soul which attract karma bondage enshrouding knowledge, etc, constitute subjective bondage and the bondage itself enshrouding knowledge, etc, is objective bondage 34
Influx and bondage are further divided into beneficial and non-beneficial, viz, beneficial influx and non-beneficial influx, beneficial bondage and non-beneficial bondage Although influx and bondage in general fall on the side of the inauspicious, ordinary people consider them inaupicious only when they are inauspicious, but not when on the surface of these, and at least to them, they appear to be auspicious So mainly the factors giving a sinful bondage are called inauspicious influx and the bondage itself is called inauspicious bondage, and the factors giving a pious bondage are called auspicious influx and the bondage itself is called pious bondage Those souls which have a taste and hankering for objects of pleasure obtained from pious deeds cannot cut themselves asunder from auspecious influx and auspicious bondage.
On this the following is worth quoting from Pandit Todarmal: “The sinful influx like violence is considered bad. The pious
33 āsavadı jena kammam parināmenappano sa vinneo bhāvāsayo inutto kammāsayanam paro hodi
-Dravyasamgraha, Gatha, 29. 34 Dravyasamgraha, Gatha, 32