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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(1) The total number of Sub-classes is 148. Of these there are 26 sub-classes which are included in some others of which they are a sort of inseparable accident, and therefore really only 122 distinct sub-classes can come into action at a time. The 26 are as follows:
The body (Sharira) karma is of 5 kinds: Physical, Fluid, Assimilative, Electric, and Karmic. The molecular bondage (Bandhana) and interfusion (Samgháta) is of 5 kinds each. But the bondage and the fusion are entirely dependant on and associated with the 5 bodies. Therefore these 10 may be considered as nondistinct (Aviná-bháví).
The touch, taste, smell, and colour sub-classes are respectively 8, 5, 2, and 5 in number. But each class has a distinct activity, i. e., there are only 4 distinct sub-classes from this view point. Thus 16, may be considered as non distinct.
Deducting the above 10 and 16, i. e. 26 from 148, we get 122 sub-classes.
Out of these 122 distinct sub classes 2, i.e. Clouded-Right-Belief and Mixed-Right-and-Wrong Belief sub-classes cannot be bound in the first stage of wrong belief, where the soul has and can have the bondage by the Wrong Belief Deluding Karma alone. Thus the number of bindable sub classes becomes 120. But the soul in this stage cannot possibly have bondage of Sharira or an Aharaka Assimilative-body; Áharaka- Ángopánga or Assimilative limbs and minor limbs; nor the Tirthankara-body-making-Karma. Deducting these three from the 120, we get 117 as the total number of bindable Karmas in this stage.
(2) The Hellish and Sub-human Age have had their bondageseparation (Bandha Vyuchchhitti) at the end of the first and second stage respectively. But in this stage no agekarma is ever bound; therefore the Human and Celestial Age Sub-classes also must be excluded. At the end of the second stage we had 101-25-76 bindable subclasses. Deducting the 2 from this 76 we get 74. (3) In this stage the human, and Celestial Age and the Tirthankara-body sub-classes can also be bound. Therefore to the above 74 these 3 must be added, making the bindable sub-classes 77.
(4) The Áháraka Sharíra or Assimilative body and the Aháraka Ángopánga or Assimilative limbs and minor limbs sub-classes are bound only here, therefore (63-6)- 57 plus these 2-59 is the bindable total here.