Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER EIGHT
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(2) Along with a nature there is produced in the karmic particles a limitation as to time period up to which the nature in question is not to disappear from them; this production of timelimit is called sthiti-bandha or 'bondage in respect of duration.'
(3) Along with a nature there is produced in the karmic particles certain specialities on account of which the experience of the fruit concerned is characterized by intensity, mildness etc; the production of these specialities is called anubhāvabandha or 'bondage in respect of intensity.'
(4) The physical particles that have been received and have been transformed into various types of karma naturally undergo a corresponding quantitative distribution; it is this quantitative distribution that is called pradeśa-bandha or bondage in respect of constituent-units.'
Of these four types of bondage the first and the last are due to yoga; for the degrees of prakrti-bandha and pradeśa-bandha depend on the degrees of the yoga concerned. On the other hand, the second and the third type of bondage are due to kaṣāya; for the largeness or smallness of sthiti-bandha and anubhāva-bandha depends on the intensity or mildness of the kaşāya concerned. 4.
The Various Müla-prakstis or Basic Karma-types Mentioned by Name :
Of these types of bondage the first-i.e. prakrti-bandha or 'bondage in respect of nature’-is of eight types-viz. jñānavaraṇa, darśanavaraņa, vedanīya, mohanīya, āyuska, nāma, gotra and antarāya. 5.
In the mass of karmic particles received into itself by a jīva through its specific endeavour various natures are simultaneously created depending on the variety of the concerned capacity to
ndeavour. These natures are in themselves invisible but they can be enumerated simply on the basis of the effects produced by them. In one worldly jīva or in many of them innumerable effects are observed to have been produced by the karmas. The natures that produce these effects are in point of fact innumerable, yet on