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3.79 egam vigimcamāṇe pudho vigimcai, pudho vigimcamāṇe egam vigimcai. One who eliminates one eliminates all; one who eliminates all eliminates one. Bhagyam Sūtra 79 The aspirant climbing the ladder of elimination while engaged in eliminating a single passion like anger, does eliminate all others. Here, entire process of eliminating the karma should be understood in accordance with the treatises on the science of karma." Conversely speaking, while eliminating all varieties of passions, the aspirant eliminates everyone passion. 3.80 saddhi āņāe mehāvī. The aspirant informed with faith, following the instruction of scriptures, grows in intelligence. Bhāsyam Sūtra 80 Here the Sūtra expounds the first competence of the monk aspiring to climb up the ladder of elimination. A person of deep faith is competent to tread on the great path. Faith"? means eagerness for emancipation. Only a person of deep faith, develops dread for worldly life and strives for elimination of karma. This is explained in the following dialogue in Uttarādhyayana (29.2): “What does an aspirant produce by means of dread for worldly life, O Lord?”
"By means of such dread he produced supreme faith in the discipline. By means of the supreme faith in the discipline, the dread is fulfilled quickly and the aspirant eliminates never-ending anger, pride, deceit and greed. Consequently, he does not bind any new karma. On account of the destruction of the passions, he purifies his perversity and becomes the practiser of the faith. On the purification of his faith, some aspirants attain emancipation in that very life. Some again, on the gradual purification of the faith do not cross the limit of the third life for attaining emancipation.”13
Now the second competence for emancipation is shown. The monk grows in intelligence on account of his faithfulness to the scriptures. The monk
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