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176. And in that knowing soul, the formerly bound Karmas (are ineffectual) like clod of earth, although all of them are bound with its karmic body.
177. As those which are of four kinds (wrong belief,) voglessness, passions and vibratory activity) bind the soul every moment with many kinds of Karmas with the help of the soul's attributes of perception and knowledge (love and hatred), therefore the knowing soal (attentive to itself) is certainly incapable of being bound by Karmas.
178. And because the attribute of knowledge when in a low stage (below the 11th) is again modified into something else, (love, hatred etc.,) it is, in that view said to be the binder (of Karmas).
179. When right belief, knowledge (and) conduct manifest themselves in a low degree, then the knower is bound by many kinds of karmic matter.
180. All the previously boond, Karmas (which) exist in a right believer, only bind sach karmas as are appropriate to his attentiveness.
181. They are incapable of assimilation, like an inmature woman to a man. (The soal, binds them as capable of assimilation, like a young woman to a man.
182. Having been unripe for fraition, when they (the Karmas) become ripe for fruition, they bind the 7 or 8 kinds of knowledge obscaring and other forms of Karmas.
183. By these reasons indeed, a right believer is not the binder of karmas. In the absence of thought inflow the karmas are not said to be the binders.
184. Love, hatred, and delasion, (thought) inflow, is not found in the right believer. Therefore in the absence of thought inflow, Karmas do not become the cause of new bondage).
