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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process is that on waking, the person does not remember what he has done in his dreamy sleep).
7.Q.
It is said that the repetition of terms connotes the concept of different stratums. This is not observed here as all the terms relate to the stratum of a single living being. Hence, the duplicated terms like 'Nidra-nidra' (deep sleep) and 'Pracala-pracală (deep drowiness) do not stand scrutiny in this aphorism as there are no different substratums.
A. This is not correct. The different substratumness could be observed in the single soul with reference to different times, location etc. We observe the difference in a single entity with reference to quality changes with time. It can be illustrated in statements like, "you were intelligent last year but you are more intelligent this year". Similiarly, locational differences are also observed as in the case of a person seen previously in Mathura and now seen in Pataliputra (Patna, Bihar) when one says, "oh, you are changed." Similarly, here too, the duplication of terms is substantiated with respect to time and location
etc.
8. Alternatively, the duplication of terms is also observed in case of continued repetition. It is illustrated by the statements like 'he is coming in the house, coming in the house' (i.e. he comes to house many times.)
9.
The activities like sleeping etc. occur due to the realisation of pleasure-feeling-producing karma. While it is evident that there is the realisation of the pleasure feeling karma due to (parital or total) disappearance of distress and fatigue etc. there is always a weaker realisation of the displeasure feeling producing karma too.
10. The sleep, deep sleep, drowsiness, deep drowsiness and somnambulism are non-different from the conation-obscuring process. Thus, all of these should individually be referred to with this species.
11.Q. There has been mention of difference of ocular obscuration etc. from the conation-obscuring in semi-aphorism 8.7.1 (because of the possessive case in the first term of the aphorism 8.7) while there is mention of non-difference of sleep etc. from the same in the semiaphorism 8.7.10 above. These statements are contradictory with respect to the same single species of conation obscuring karma.
A.
This is not correct. The differeential or non-differential relationship is not contradictory when different aspects or intentions are taken into account. The relationships are always intention-based.