Uttarajjhayana 202.16

202.16

22 aṇuppehāe -aṃ bhante jīve kiṃ jaṇayai | aṇuppehāe

By pondering (on what he has learned) he loosens the firm hold which the seven kinds of Karman, except the Âyushka (have upon the soul); he shortens their duration when it was to be a long one; he mitigates their power when it was intense; (he reduces their sphere of action when it was a wide one); he may either acquire Âyushka-karman or not, but he no more accumulates Karman which produces unpleasant feelings, and he quickly crosses the very large forest of the fourfold Samsâra, which is without beginning and end. (22)