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Processes of Change in Fruition
By the application and manifestation of the process of a particular type of potency, the soul is able to change the nature (prakrti), duration (sthiti) intensity (anubhāga) and numerical strength (pradesa) of the bonded karman. Transformation (saskramana) is a process whereby one sub-type (uttarpraksti) of a karman is transformed into another sub-type of the same main species. The process of increased realization (udvartanā) and decreased realization (apavartanā) are the transformations of the duration (sthiti) and intensity of fruition (anubhāga) respectively, of a karman. Finally there is a state of karman which is so irrefrangibly bound with the soul that it is not amenable to any of the above changes. This is the state of nikăcană in which all parameters are unalterably fixed and course of fruition is predetermined from the very time of bondage.
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