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causes these dispositions is known as 'rasa' {emotion/mood/frame of mind). The destruction of this 'rasa' is known as “rasaghaata' {destruction of the ability of the soul to generate auspicious and inauspicious dispositions to occur.
The nature of unauspicious karmas which are bound (in sattaa) are so intensed, that each karmic particle has infinite times more rasa than that found in all the living beings in the universe. (It is a way to explain the intensity of karmic rasa.)
NB Here we have to bear in mind that the structure of the nishekas of ashubha karma prakriti {the nature of inauspicious karmas} is such that there is no destruction of rasa in the karmas, which are already in fruition (already in uday). However, there is destruction of rasa in the karmas that shall come into fruition later (still in satta).
Of this rasa, when one tiny infinitesimal portion remains while the remaining part is destroyed within one antaramuhuutra (a period of time less than 48 minutes), it is known as prathama rasaghaata. Dvitiiya rasaghaata (second rasaghaata) occurs when, from the remaining portion of rasa, one tiny infinitesimal portion remains while the remaining portions are destroyed within one antaramuhuurta.
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