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Chapters on Passions
respect to current scientific developments and the future of Karmology, require serious studies.
One important fact of Karmology in these texts is their presentation through mathematical symbolism. Almost all the karmological texts contain this mathematics on which L.C. Jain has given some elaboration and seeds of set theory in it. The karmological mathematics is a Para worldly one which has been left untouched by researchers of various categories.
The moral and spiritual disciplines have developed mainly on the basis of Karmology and specially based on four destructive Karmas including deluding Karma. Thus, Karmas and disciplining of life is another important subject for going into.
This text is named as Kaņāya-prābhrta (Chapters on Passions) indicating Passions play an important role in Karmology and in life too. They are psychological in nature. Thus, psychology of Karma is another newer field. They could be scientifically studied through measurement of some physical properties like G.S.R., brain-wave change etc. These may lead to verifying relation between cause and effect like Weber-Freshner equation, which have mutual relations in Karmology too.
Thus, Kasăya-prābhịta opens a new Pandora's Box for the current and future scholars. It is hoped that this first karmological text will encourage the new generation to peep into these academic possibilities.
The reading references for this chapter are given in Appendix 1.
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