Karma Philosophy In Jainism

SR No.: 007016
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chandrashekharvijay, Chunilal Vrajlal Modi
Publisher: Kamal Prakashan
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 84
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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CHAPTER III
SOUL, WORLD AND KARMA
That which is consciousness is life. Soul by nature is absolutely and perfectly pure. It is spotless. But only the soul that gets deliverance from all feelings of attachment and aversion through religious disciplines and this attains a perfectly purified state, does not attract Karma of the sixteenth group.
(But the soul that is agitated by the disturbing waves of attachment and aversion continuously attracts Karma.) If we give the analogy to the feelings of attachment and aversion of a magnet, the corpuscles of Karma would be likened to the particles of iron. The particles of iron would be attracted and get attached only to a magnet.
The souls that exterminate the feelings of attachment and aversion lose the power of attraction and hence the particles of Karma never cling to them. These souls are the liberated or released souls (God).
But our subject matter of discussion now is embodied souls These souls have in them innate powers of attachment and aversion for attraction and it is due to the operation of these twin forces that the molecules of Karma continuously stick to them. Not a moment passes, without some particle of Karma uniting with the soul.
Every soul has its mind engaged in some thought at least. The activity of speech may be occasional but the body is continuously engaged in the act of breathing, hard or slow. After all, the act of not doing anything good is active. Thus, some activity either by mind, speech or body is being continuously performed.
The operative forces that continuously attract the particles of Karma on the one hand are the feelings of attachment and aversion and on the other, the triple activities of mind, speech and body.
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