Gommatasara Karma Kanda

SR No.: 001611
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1927
Total Pages: 324
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Karma, & Canon
File Size: 20 MB

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
आयुष्कभागः स्तोकः नामगोत्रे समः ततः अधिकः। घातित्रयेपि च ततः मोहे ततः ततः तृतीये ॥ १६२॥
192. (The above unit of bondage is transformed into the 8 classes of Karmas as follows):
The age part (is) the least. The body and family (Karmas are) equal, (but) more than that (i. e., the age Karma). And the three destructive (obstructive, conation and knowledge obscuring are) also (equal), (but more) than that (i. e., the body or family Karma). The deluding Karma (is more) than that (i. e., any of these three destructive Karmas). (And) the third (i, e., the feeling Karma is more) than that (i. e., the deluding Karma).
Commentary. Note that the transformation into the age Karma is possible only in the 8 "declining-times" Apakarsha-Kála (see Jíva Kánda Gatha 518 page 258). Otherwise the unit of bondage is transformed into the remaining 7 Karmas up to 9th stage. In the 10th there is no transformation into the Deluding Karma. In the 11th, 12th and 13th stages the transformation is only into the pleasure (Sátá) Feeling (Vedaniya) Karma.
सुहदुक्खणिमित्तादो बहुणिज्जरगोत्ति वेयणीयस्स। सव्वेहिंतो बहुगं दव्वं होदित्ति णिझिं ॥ १६३ ॥ सुखदुःखनिमित्तात् बहुनिर्जरक इति वेदनीयस्य । सर्वेभ्यः बहुकं द्रव्यं भवतीति निर्दिष्टम् ॥ १६३ ।।
193. Owing to continuous) causes for pleasure and pain, (there is) much shedding of (feeling-Karma), therefore the largest (part of Karmic) matter is appropriated by feeling-Karma. So it has been said.
Commentary. In every instant of our life there is a feeling of pleasure or pain. These two feelings predominate all other sensations. The operation and fruition of every Karma implies shedding of its Karmic matter. There is thus a continuous and considerable shedding of the feeling Karmas,