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Chapter - 3
Samayasāra material atoms of karma-varganā, the subtlemost group of matter. This group has a special affinity for clinging to the soul and a soul, in worldly state, is always associated with it. The gist of the above verses is that psychic modes and states of karma mutually determine each other, i.e., a change in karma may bring about a corresponding psychic change which generally has a predominant affective tone and manifests itself as an emotion or passion in the organism. This emotional psychic state is bhāva karma. Since it is a psychic event its substantial cause (upādāna karaṇa) is the soul itself and not karma. Stated differently, a change in dravya karma acts as an external causal agent and brings about a change in bhāva karma i.e., corresponding change in the purity of the soul. The bhava karma, in its turn, will produce an emotional filling in the form of a psychological distortion. Thus the chain of causation can be diagrammatically represented thus
Dravya Karma (Karmic matter)
Bhāva Karma (Psychic impurity)
Emotion (or feeling) - Psychological distortion
Thus a psychological distortion (anger, hate, fear) emerges as the effect of two causal agents: bhāva karma (substantial cause) and dravya karma (external or auxiliary cause). In the succeeding verses the psycho-physical theory is examined from different aspects. Causal Potency (Efficiency) of the Soul from Both Aspects.
णिच्छयणयस्स एवं आदा अप्पाणमेव हि करेदि।
वेदयदि पुणो तं चेव जाण अत्ता दु अत्ताणं ॥१५॥ nicchayanayassa evam ādā appāņameva hi karedi. vedayadi puņo tam ceva jāna attă du attānam.. 15
ववहारस्स दु आदा पोग्गलकम्मं करेदि णेयविहं।
तं चेव य वेदयदे पोग्गलकम्मं अणेयविहं॥१६॥ vavahārassa du ādā poggalakammam karedi neyaviham. tam ceva ya vedayade poggalakammam aņeyaviham.. 16 (Jāņa) Know that (nicchayaņayassa evam) according to the
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