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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
These terms refer to three classes of karmic molecules as described in Jain scriptures :--wrong belief deluding karma is of three kinds, wrong belief karmas, clouded right belief karma and mixed right and wrong belief karma. The word rasi refers to group of karmic molecules as said in the Jain scripture.
(4) Buddha Charya page 370 Anguli mala sutta (M. N. 2-4.8.)
“O Brahmana, you are suffering the fruit of that karma (karma vipaka) in the very life, which would have to be suffered for many centuries, many millenniums in the hell by you. Then the Saint Angulimala, while enjoying the bliss of freedom in self-concentration at 'a solitary place said the verse which means.”
“He at first collects the karmas and then destroys them. He is shining in the universe like the moon within the clouds. His acquired bad karmas are covered with good karmas.”
Note. Here the words karma vipaka, 'arjite' marjit', the example of cloud and moon show that karmas are something material distinct from the pure soul; which can be ripened, collected and destroyed and they obscure the soul in the same way as the clouds obscure the moon and when they are removed, the moon-like soul is shining forth.
(5) The Doctrine of the Buddha by George Grimm (1926.)
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