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 IV
CAUSES OF BONDAGE OF KARMA
We shall now consider in this chapter the causes which operate for the continuous union of Karma particles with the soul.
Lords Jinas, through extraordinary self-abnegation and rigorous austerities of renunciation and fasts, completely annihilated Karmic coverings obscuring the attributes of the soul. With the removal of these impurities of Karma, the Lords obtained illumination of omniscience. Just as many things are reflected in a mirror at a time, in this Illumination the Lords apprehended all the cosmic things and phenomena of all times. and places with all their infinite qualities, modes and aspects.
In this transcedental vision, the Lords apprehended all kinds of sentient beings and perceived that all the embodied souls had inherent latent potency to reach the same exalted state of the soul which they had attained. Every embodied soul by nature was perfectly pure as was the supreme soul. But this divinity of the soul was obscured and polluted by particles, of Karma and that was the reason why souls journeyed through incessant series of births and deaths and got enmeshed in the so-called happiness of wealth, woman and other mundane materials.
The Lords also apprehended the causes which propel the Karmic particles to fuse with the soul and defile its inherent. perfect purity. The compassionate Lords have propounded these four causes as responsible for the bondage of Karma with the soul;
(1) Lack of unquestioning fidelity to truth in the soul (false) belief or Mithyatva).
(2) Absence of right conduct in life (Avirti).
(3) Unhealthy vibrations of passions in the soul (Kashaya ). (4) Triple activities of thought, word and deed (Yoga).
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