Introduction to Jainism and its Culture

SR No.: 001605
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Balbhadra Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Culture
File Size: 21 MB

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There is a variation in karmic bondage due to virility also. A powerful person invites stronger bondage as compared with a weakling
There is also a variation in karmic bondage due to resources (material and live). For example, in case of people indulging in violent activities for evil purpose like murder and theft or for good purpose like defending someone, if one person has smart weapons and the other just ordinary, the first will have more intense bondage as compared to the second. Because the one with smarter weapons gets more agitated.
FRUITION AND FRUITS OF KARMAS
JÑĀNĀVARAŅIYA KARMA
Consciousness is the intrinsic nature of soul. This consciousness is of general and specific nature. Cognition of the general form or existence of a thing is darśana or perception and that of the specific or unique form is jñāna or knowledge. Soul is endowed with the power and capacity to perceive and know directly and instantaneously any substance with all its modes and attributes in all the three sections of time (past, present, and future) without any outside help. But since time immemorial it suffers the bondage of knowledge-obscuring karma and this does not allow this power to manifest itself. With the destructioncum-suppression (kśayopaşama) of this knowledge-obscuring karma a worldly being acquires proportionate matijñāna (sensory knowledge) and śrutajñāna (knowledge acquired through instruction and reasoning; scriptural knowledge). Matijñāna is acquired through five sense organs and mind. A person having weak eyesight, although sees with his eyes, takes help of spectacles. He cannot see without spectacles. In the same way the cognitive ability of soul is weak. Although it acquires knowledge through its cognitive power but only with the help of sense organs and mind, without them it fails to do so. If the spectacles are defective the vision is also defective, dim, or not at all. In the same way if the mind and sense organs are defective the soul acquires wrong knowledge, less knowledge, or no knowledge at all. The cognitive activity is dependent on the activity of mind and sense organs. For example, a soul, indeed, has the capacity of cognition but if the body is numb due to excessive cold, medicine or some ailment, it does not experience hot and cold touch. Also if some sense organ is disabled the
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