Sarvadarshanasangraha 3.111

3.111

Some describe [the reality] as seven principles. So it has been said: "The principles are soul, non-soul, influx, bondage, stoppage, wearing away, and liberation." Among these, soul and non-soul have been explained. Influx is now explained: Influx is the movement of the self by means of the movement of the physical body and so forth, known by the designation 'activity'. Just as an opening that lets in water is called an 'influx' because it is a cause for the flowing in of water and the like, so, because karma flows in through the conduit of activity, that activity is influx. Just as a damp cloth takes up the mass of dust brought by the wind from all sides, so the self, moistened by the water of the passions, takes in karma brought by activity with all its spatial units. Or just as a red-hot iron ball thrown into water absorbs water from all sides, so the soul, heated by the passions, takes in karma brought by activity from all sides. A passion is anger, pride, deceit, and greed, so called because it injures, harms the self by leading it to an unhappy state of existence. It is twofold through the division into auspicious and inauspicious. Here, non-violence and the like are auspicious bodily activity; truthful, measured, and wholesome speech and the like are auspicious vocal activity; devotion to the Five Supreme Lords named Arhat, Siddha, Ācārya, Upādhyāya, and Sādhu, delight in penance, reverence for sacred scripture, and so forth are auspicious mental activity. But the three kinds of activity opposite to these are inauspicious. All this variety of kinds and sub-kinds of influx has been proclaimed with earnestness through a series of aphorisms: "Activity is the action of body, speech, and mind. That is influx. The auspicious is [the influx] of merit; the inauspicious is of demerit," and so forth. Others, however, consider as follows: Influx is the engagement of the sense faculties toward sense objects, which causes the person to flow toward them; for through the sense faculties, the conscious light of the person, touching objects, transforms into the form of cognitions such as color and form.