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OUTLINES OF KARMA IN JAINISM
is lying within its reach the matter assimilated by soul is divided into the eight species of karma The shares which fall to the eight chief species differ from one another The age-determining species (ayus) receives the smallest part, & greater portion goes to the personality-determining (naman) and status-determining (gotra) species which both obtain equal portions More than that goes to the knowlengeobscuring (jnanavarana ), intuition-obscuring (darsanavarana), and power-hindering (antaraya) species, each of which gets an equal portion Still a larger part than these falls to the belief and conduct-obscuring species (mohaniya) and the greatest of all goes to the feeling-producing species (vedania) These shares are further divided among the sub-species? Causes of Bondage
The theory of causation explains each and every event of life in the strict form of cause and effect No effect can be produced in the absence of its capse. This vpiversal law is applied to the doctrine of karma also as we have already mentioned Each of the karma-species can only be bound so for as its cause of bondage is in existence The following activites constitute the causes of the different species Although all the species are bound by activities and passions in general, yet, every species has some special causes constituted ty some particular activities. They are as follows: Causes of Knowledge and Intuition-obscuring Karmas
1. Hostility against knowledge, knower and, the means of knowledge. 2 Denial, apoihilation, and hindrance of these three 3 Disregard of a true doctrine and its commandments 4 Rebelliousness and lack of discipline towards teachers. 5 Complete destruction of books and other means of knowledge.
6, Indifferent or opposite attitude towards knower and knowledge, Causes of Feeling Producing Karma
Pleasure I Respects for parents, teachers, etc 2 To have pity on miserable beings 3. Keeping of vows of a house-holder or a monk 4 Honourable conduct 5. Overcoming of passions.
6. Giving of alms or some other kind of help 1 Doctrine of Karma in Jain Philosophy, p 24 2 Ibtd., p 26 3 Karma-grantha, 1, 54-61
| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |