Viyahapannatti 7.1.333

7.1.333

"Venerable Sir! Is there known to be motion for one free from karma?"
"Yes, there is."
"How, Venerable Sir, is motion known for one free from karma?"
"Gautama! Motion for one free from karma is known by absence of attachment, by absence of grease, by transformation into motion, by severing of bondage, by absence of fuel, and by previous momentum."
"How, Venerable Sir, is motion for one free from karma known by absence of attachment, by absence of grease, and by transformation into motion?"
"Just as, Gautama, if some man should take a dried gourd, free from holes and intact, and gradually treating it, wrap it with darbha and kuśa grasses, and having wrapped it, coat it with eight coatings of clay, and having coated it, dry it in the heat; and when it is thoroughly dry, cast it into fathomless, impassable, man-deep water—surely then, Gautama, that gourd, due to the heaviness, weight, and heavy load of those eight coatings of clay, sinking through the water's surface, would come to rest upon the ground below?"
"Yes, it would."
"Then, upon the destruction of those eight coatings of clay, would that gourd, leaving the ground below, come to rest upon the water's surface above?"
"Yes, it would."
"In this way, Gautama, motion for one free from karma is known by absence of attachment, by absence of grease, and by transformation into motion."
"How, Venerable Sir, is motion for one free from karma known by severing of bondage?"
"Gautama! Just as a pod of black gram, or a pod of mung bean, or a pod of māṣa, or a pod of the silk-cotton tree, or a castor seed, when placed in the heat and dried, bursts open and flies off to a distant end—in this way, Gautama, motion for one free from karma is known by severing of bondage."
"How, Venerable Sir, is motion for one free from karma known by absence of fuel?"
"Gautama! Just as smoke released from fuel moves upwards by its own nature without obstruction—in this way, Gautama, motion for one free from karma is known by absence of fuel."
"How, Venerable Sir, is motion for one free from karma known by previous momentum?"
"Gautama! Just as an arrow released from a bow moves without obstruction towards its target—in this way, Gautama, motion for one free from karma is known by previous momentum.
Thus, indeed, Gautama, motion for one free from karma is known by absence of attachment, by absence of grease, by transformation into motion, by severing of bondage, by absence of fuel, and by previous momentum."