Gandharavada

SR No.: 006739
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Esther A Solomon
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyasabha
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 400
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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sankramaņam-Karmaprakřti (1937), Bandhana-karaṇa, p. 19 (1). By this process the soul either deposits a formerly bound karman into one which it is binding at the time and then transforms it into the latter, or of the many kinds of karmic sub-types that it is binding one karmic sub-type is transformed into another [Badhyamānāsu prakștişu madhye abadhyamānaprakstidalikam praksipya badhyamāna-prakrtirūpatayā yat tasya pariņamanam, yac ca vă badhyamānānām prakřtinās dalikarūpasyetaretararüpata yā parinamanam tat saryam sankramanam ity ucyate-Karmaprakrti p. 1 (2)]. In the case of the three sub-types of the darśana-mohanīya (belief-deluding) karman, however, transformation is possible even in the absence of bondage. A person of right belief (samyag-drsti) transforms the perversity-producing (mithyātva) karman into the two karmans that produce respectively right-cum-wrong belief (samyagmithyātva) and right-belief (samyaktva), even though the latter two are not bound. Similarly he transforms the karma that produces right-cum-wrong belief into one that produces right belief. It may be stressed again here that samyagmithyātva and samyaktva are only the two particular states of purity of the mithyātva-pudgala (i. e. the karmic matter producing perversity). The soul can bind only the karman that produces perversity (mithyātva). It does not bind the karman producing samyag-mithyātva, or the karman producing samyāktva, but only purifies the mithyātva-karman into samyag-mithyātva and samyaktva. [Sea Karmaprakşti, p. 2 (2)].
It is to be noted, as Dr. Tatia has drawn our attention, that a person of perverted belief (mithyā-dęsti) cannot transform his perversion-karman (mithyatva) into the karman that produces right-cum-wrong belief or into one that produces right belief, nor can a person of right belief transform his karma producing right belief into one that produces right-cum-wrong belief or wrong belief [Ibid, p. 3 (2)].*
*See 'Studies in Jaina Philosophy', pp. 255-7—Dr. Nathmal Tatia. We are highly indebted to Dr. Tatia's lucid exposition of the states and processes of karman in his book.