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(v) Āsādana: To attempt to block the truthful academic and spiritual message
of other beings. (vi) Upaghāta: To attempt to destroy the truth by saying that it is false. (2) Darśanāvaraṇīya (Perception obscuring Karma):
What causes its Āsrava/bonding? The answer is the same as given above for Jñānāvaraṇīya Karma. (3) Vedanīya (Feeling Karma): Ācārya Umāsvāmī writes: Dukha- śoka-tāpākrandana-vadha-paridevanā-nyātmaparo bhaya-sthānānyasadavedyasya. .
(Tattvārthasūtra -6.11) According to this Sūtra the following reasons lead to the Asrava of pain feeling (Asātā) Vedanīya Karma: (i) Suffering (Dukha): The experience/thought/feeling of misery. (ii) Sorrow (Soka): The experience/thought/feeling of sorrow or sadness. (iii) Agony (Tāpa): The experience/though/feeling of agony (feeling bad about
our loss/insult). (iv) Crying (Akrandana): The actions/thought/feeling of weeping out loudly. (v) Injury (Vadha): The actions/thought/feeling of injury to oneself or others. (vi) Lamentation (Paridevana): Weeping out loudly to attract attention and
sympathy from others. Ācārya Umāsvāmī further writes:
Bhuta-vratyanukampā-dāna-sarāga-samyamādi-yogaḥ kṣāntiḥ, śauchamiti sadvedyasya.
(Tattvārthasūtra - 6.12) According to this Sūtra the following reasons lead to the Asrava of pleasure feeling (Sātā) Vedanīya Karma: (i) Compassion (Anukampā); The experience/thought/ feeling of compassion
towards all beings. (ii) Compassion towards the spiritually advanced persons (Anukampā towards
Vstī): The experience/ thought/ feeling of compassion towards those who
are on the spiritual path of liberation with some renunciation and vows. (iii) Charity (Dāna): To gift food, medicine, education material, time, polite
and kind words, etc.
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