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Tranquillization of karma means not acquiring new karma and getting rid of the old ones.
2.156 je mamaiya-matim jahāti, se jahāti mamāiyam.
The monk who gets rid of the mind of possessiveness abandons possessiveness.
Bhasyam Sutra 156
The disposition of 'mine'-ness' is possessiveness. The instinct of 'mine'ness is the inclination to 'mine' -ness. The possessiveness is in respect of animate and also inanimate objects. For instance, my mother; my father; my house; my land. The person who frees his mind of possessiveness succeeds in truly getting rid of possessive instinct in respect of animate and inanimate things.
On this topic, the Curni(p.92)14 has given the example of Bharata Cakravarti who got rid of his instinct of 'mine'-ness when he entered the palace fitted with mirrors all round (dressing room). 'I do indeed dwell in the palace', observed an ascetic but in your case the palace dwells in your mind." The implication is that unless and until the instinct of 'mine'-ness settled in the mind is not given up, the sense of possessiveness in respect of external things cannot be got rid of. It is, therefore, necessary to clean the mind at the
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2.15 7 se hu ditthapahe muni, jassa natthi mamäiyam.
Only the monk who has no passion of 'mine'-ness has seen the path. Bhasyam Sutra 157
Due to 'mine'-ness, the path becomes perverse and the knowledge too. The person who is free of possessiveness has seen the path. Such monk is truly wise. On the dissolution of the knot of 'mine'-ness only, one can achieve the right intuition and knowledge. This is the implication of the Sútra.
2.158 tam parinṇāya mehāvi.
The prudent monk should know and abandon possessiveness.
Bhasyam Sutra 158
The intelligent monk should understand the nature of possessions through comprehension qua knowledge and give them up through comprehension qua abandonment.
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