Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
so that the strength and 'thickness,' and, consequently, the duration of the karmic chains also actually depend on the degree of their intensity. Besides these powerful passions, desire also takes the form of joking, attachment, aversion, grief, fear and disgust, as well as of the three kinds of sex-passion peculiar to the three sexes, the male, the female and the neuter. These are called the nine no-kashayas, and are all potent causes of bondage.
So much for the duration and strength, i.e., malignity or virulence of the forces of karma. As regards the quantity of matter which enters into union with the soul, that obviously depends on the actions performed by the individual, since material influx only follows upon the three kinds of activities, mental, physical and lingual or vocal. So far as the different kinds of karmas are concerned, they also clearly result from the material influx, because they are, in their real nature, only so many different kinds of forces which, as already observed, cannot be imagined to be altogether immaterial. We may not formulate the third great law of interaction between spirit and matter thus: the quantity of the material of our bondage and the variety of karmic bonds depend on the three channels of activity, namely, the mind, speech, and body, but their duration and strength, or malignity, are determined by the intensity of passions and desires of the soul.
The next thing to understand in this connection is the effect of the action of matter on the soul. We have said that the fusion of spirit and matter results in the bondage of the soul. This is literally true; for