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A Treatise on Jainism.
ding of its matter. To illustrate, we wish evil. to our neighbour A : the thought-activity invites the karmic matter into the soul (ashrava), the matter comes and binds the soul (bandha). This karma may take two months to bear its full fruits; in the meantime it is an evil load for the soul. To get lightness and to get rid of the karma, the soul may deliberately feel an opposite kind of feeling towards other neighbours B, C, and D, or towards A himself. A still surer way is to practise austerity. By removing the mind from the demands and impulses of the body, and by mortifying the physical man through not listening to its greed and temptations, matter may be overcome and the soul freed from the bondage. : The natural maturing of a Karma and its separation from the soul is called SavipakaNirjara. Inducing a karma to leave the soul by means of a contrary karma, or by means of ascetic practices, is called Avipaka-Nirjara (Riddance without fruition).
The causes of stopping of inflow of Karmic matter given previously are also causes of
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