________________
102
OUTLINES OF JAINISM
Action full of negligence, impurity, distraction among the objects of the senses, causing pain to or talking evil of others, produce an inflow of sin.
58. तदथ कर्म शुभा शुभभेदतो द्वितयतां गतमैक्यमुपानयन ।
ग्ल पितनिर्भरमोहरजा अयं स्वयमुदे त्यवबोधसुधाप्लवः ॥१॥ एको दूरात्त्यजति मदिरां ब्राह्यणत्वाभिमाना दन्यः शूद्रः स्वयमहमिति स्वाति नित्यं तयैव । द्वावप्येतो युगपटुदरा निर्गतौ शूद्रिकायाः शूद्रौ साक्षादथ च चरतो जातिभेदभ्रमेण ॥ २ ॥ हेतुस्वभावानुभवाश्रयाणां सदाप्यभेदान्न हि कर्मभेदः । तद्वन्धमााश्रितमेकमिष्टं स्वयं समस्तं खलु बन्धहेतुः ॥ ३ ॥
Samayasāra-kalaśa, by Amritachandra Sūri, iv, 1 3.
Then, reducing to unity the karma, which is distinguished into two kinds according to good or bad (thoughts), this flood of nectar in the form of full knowledge arises of itself, annihilating all the dust of infatuation. One, falsely considering himself to be a Brahman, keeps away from wine; while another, knowing himself as a Sūdra, constantly bathes in the same; and the two have come forth together from the womb of the same Sūdra mother, and therefore are obviously Sūdras, but are pursuing different rules of conduct because of imaginary differences of caste. ___ The cause, nature, experience, and support of these two [punya and papa being the same, therefore there is no difference in the karma. Therefore they are best regarded as one, dependent upon the manner of bondage, and are certainly all by themselves a cause of bondage.
