Structure and Functions of Soul in Jainism

SR No.: 001617
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S C Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 272
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Epistemology, Nyay, & Spiritual
File Size: 16 MB

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Jaina Eschatology :: 211
the realization (udaya) of the, partially destructive karmas”l Nemicandra says: “Where the karmas are obstructing the soul's faculties and still where the faculties are manifesting partially, it is the destructive-subsidential manifestation.”2 Akalanka contends that the mixed manifestation has a dual nature like the partially obstructed intoxicating power of an inferior type of rice (kodon).3 We must remember that no karmas are able to destroy the attributes of the soul totally, hence in the present context destruction must be taken with reference to some modes of an ever present attribute of the soul. The subsidential-destructive type of manifestations require the non-operation of the totally destructive karmas, so as to avoid complete disappearance of the soul's faculties, and the operation of the partially destructive karmas so as to effect a distortion and limitation of the soul's powers. The positive and the negative conditions that determine the mixed type of manifestations are thus clearly mentioned. Akalarka again observes: “In the absence of the operation of the totally destructive karmas and in the presence of their subsidence the destructive-susbsidential type of manifestations appear on account of the operation of the partially destructive karmas."4 The positive and negative conditions that determine the mixed type of manifestations are thus clearly mentioned. Again it is said: “when the totally destructive karmas are operative, the faculties of the soul do not manifest at all. Therefore the disappearance of their operation is taken to be their destruction. The presence of such totally destructive karmas is said to be their subsidence because their potency is not actualized. In such a non-appearance of the operation of totally destructive karmas the operation of the partially destructive karmas gives rise to the destructive-subsidential manifestations on account of the absence of total destruction."5 The effect of
1. Ibid., verse 966 2. Nemicandra: Gommatasāra (Karmakānda), verse 814 3. Akalarka: Rājavārtika, p. 100 4. Ibid., 2.5.3 5. Ibid., p. 106