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Bhagavai 7:3:74-95
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ceases after the fruit has been produced. After that, it can no more produce any karmic result; it simply becomes non-karma. It is that non-karma, which falls away; therefore the samaya of experiencing is separate from that of falling away.
1. Bha. Vr. 7.75udayapraptam karma vedana dharmadharmainorabhedavivakṣaṇāt. 2. Ibid., 7.75-veditarasam karma nokarma.
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Sāsaya-asasaya-padam
7.93 neraiya nam bhamte! kim sasayā? asāsayā? goyama! siya säsayä, siya asäsayā.
The Topic of the Eternal and the Non-eternal
Are1 the infernals, O Lord! eternal or non-eternal?
Gautama! they are eternal in some respect and non-eternal in another respect. 7.94 se kenaṇtheṇam bhamte! evam vuccai neraiya siya sāsayā? siya asāsayā? goyama! avvocchittinayaṭṭhayãe sāsayā, vocchittinayatthayãe asāsayā. se teṇattheṇam jāva siya sāsayā, siya asāsayā.
For what reason, O Lord! has it been said that the infernals are eternal in some respect and nea-eternal in another respect?
Gautama! they are eternal in respect of the standpoint of non-cessation (being), and they are non-eternal in respect of the standpoint of cessation (becoming). It is for this reason that it has been said that the infernals are eternal in some respect and non-eternal in another respect.
7.95 evam java vemäṇiyä jäva siya asäsaya.
The same description holds good for all dandakas (soul-groups)...... up to the Empyrean gods ...... up to they are non-eternal in another respect.
Bhāṣya
1. Sūtras 93-95
According to the Jain Philosophy, there are only two fundamental substances, viz., sentient-substance and insentient substance. Infernals, subhumans, humans and gods all these are the modes of sentient beings. The infernal as the soulsubstance is eternal, while the infernal as the mode of the soul is non-eternal.
The problem of eternality or non-eternality of an infernal can be explained from yet another standpoint. Every infernal continues to be an infernal for a certain span of time, after which he is reborn as a subhuman or a human being. The hell is never empty of infernals. So the infernal as a class is eternal and the infernal as an individual is non-eternal.
In sūtra 7.60, the question whether the infernal is eternal or non-eternal has
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