Jaina Karmaology

SR No.: 001654
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 186
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Karma, & Tattvartha Sutra
File Size: 11 MB

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118 A. They are not the results of karmic realisations in non-living ones as they are the natural manifestations of mattergic transformaions there. (However, they are manifest in the living body due to karmic realisations). 11. The physique-making karmic sub-species of successory tranmigration is defined as that whose realisation does not make the form of the previous body dis-appear. It has four varieties - successory tranmigration towards (1) hellish destinity, (2) sub-human destinity, (3) human destinity and (5) celesial destinity. When a human or sub-human being leaves the body (or dies) after completing his life-span and moves towards hellish birth or destinity, the cause of nondisappearance of the form of his earlier body during transmigratory motion is realised and this is the hellish destinity successory transmigration. Similarly, the other three varieties should also be defined. Q. The non-disapearance of the form of earlier body is the function of the karmic species of formation and not of this species. A. This is not correct. The realisation of karmic species of formation is lost when the life-span of the current destinity is complete and the living one looses its body. Thus, there is no function left for the karmic species of formation. However, soon afterwards, the karmic species of successory tranmigration is realised which is the cause of non-disappearance of the shape of the earlier body due to its association with luminous and karmic body alongwith the accumulated eight-fold karmas during its transmigratory motion. This non-disappearance lasts for one Samaya (instant of time) as a minimum and three Samayas as a maximum under transmigratory motion. However, if there is linear motion under this condition, there is instantaneous loss of the form of the earlier body and there is immediate acquirement of mattergy capable of formation of new body. Thus, the karma of formation functions there. 12. The physique-making karmic sub-species of a-heavy-a-light is defined as that whose realisation causes the body neither to fall below like the iron ball due to heaviness (or gravity) nor to move upwards like cotton mass due to lightness. (It enables the body to maintain the balanced position). Q. How there could be a-heavy-a-lightness in the non-living realities like medium of motion and rest etc.?