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Bhāsyam Sūtra 72 The purging of the passions is the doctrine of the seer. The seer sees everything because he has done away with the destructive karma. Here the reference is to Lord Mahāvīra. The weapon is twofold: physical and non-physical. Fire etc. are physical weapons. The non-physical weapons are passions and non-restraint (see 1.19). “The fire, poison, salt, fat, alkali, acid are (physical) weapons. The evil mind, speech and body and also non-abstinence are the non-physical weapons. The person who eschews all these weapons is the ‘eschewer of weapons'. The person who puts an end to the obstructive karmas is the 'end-maker'. The person who has eschewed the weapons is (also) the 'end-maker'. The end-maker is a seer. This (i.e., purging of the passions) is the substance of his doctrine. 3.73 āyānam (nisiddhā?) sagadabbhi. The person who inhibits the passion destroys his past karma. Bhāoyam Sutra 73 There should not be any doubt that one must experience (the result of) karmas that one has acquired. How is it possible to make an end of his karma? (The reply is: It is possible to make an end of the karma acquired in the past if one can stop the intake of the new ones. The intake of the new ones means the passions (that are responsible for the new ones). The person who inhibits (and destroys) the passions is competent enough to destroy the karmas bound in the past. On such inhibition, the inflow of new karmas is stopped and the karmas acquired in the past are also destroyed. The implication is that for the purpose of such destruction, the passions must be inhibited. 3.74 je egam jāņai, se savvam jāņai, je savvam jāņai, se egam jāņai. He who knows one knows all. He who knows all knows one. Bhāsyam Sutra 74 The adjective 'one' here is without any definite substantive. The word ‘passion' follows here from the preceding Sūtra. The person who knows a single passion, such as the passion of anger, knows the nature of all the
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