Neuroscience and Karma

SR No.: 002004
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 172
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Karma, & Science
File Size: 10 MB

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sub-types which are completely obscuring, that is, they obscure in full their respective objects. But this does not mean that there is absolute lack of predilection for truth or the capacity to cognise it. If that were the case, the soul would lose its soulness and become a non-soul. Even as the densest and darkest cloud cannot completely obfuscate the sun, exactly so the karman cannot obscure the total ability of knowledge and truth.
(b) Desa-ghatin : Partially obscuring (desa-ghätin) sub-species are twenty-five viz. the remaining four knowledge-covering, three sub-types of intuition-covering, mildest type of four passions, nine types of quasipassion2 and all the five sub-types of the obstructions (antarāya) karman. Four aghāti karman are :
(i) Feeling-producing
(ii) Body-making
(iii) Status-determining
(iv) Life-span-determining.
They do not obscure any fundamental quality of the soul, but force the soul to continue its worly existence and prevent emancipation.
The feeling-producing karman has two sub-types (a) Sātāvedniya pleasure-producing and (b) Asātāvedniya or pain-producing.
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Nāma karman is concerned with body-making and causes the individual diversities. It has the largest number of sub-types (93) accounting for various forms of embodied existence. Thus, four gati-nāma-karman determine the species of the living organisms viz. (i) Sub-animal (such as plants) and animal world; (ii) human beings; (iii) celestial beings; and (iv) denizens of hell. In the same way various functions of organ
1. They are anantānubandhin, apratyākhyāni and pratyākhyāni types of anger, pride deceit and greed.
2. Nine quasi-passions are :
(i) Joy/Laughter; (ii) Sorrow; (iii) Sensuous pleasure; (iv) Ennui in self-discipline; (v) Fear; (vi) Disgust; (vii) - (ix) Sexual desires of male, female and eunuch respectively.
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