Essence Of Jaina Scriptures

SR No.: 022313
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdish Prasad Jain
Publisher: Kaveri Books
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 508
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
the states or conditions (avastha) of karma, having reference to material karman. They are not consciousness-as-such (parinamika bhava), which is beginningless, without end, natural, having no relation or reference to karmic adjuncts or encumbrances (nirupadhi). The four altered states of consciousness are produced by the coming into operation of karmas, etc. or mutations of material karman acting as the supportive factor (nimitta) or auxiliary cause. In this situation, even the physical or material karma acquire the doership or the agency of action (kartratva) of the states of consciousness from the external, otherreferential point of view (vyavahara naya) (PKS 58 AC). In reality, the self is the doer or agent of action (karta) of its own psychic states (PKS 59) from the internal, self-referential point of view (nishchaya naya) (PKS 59 AC).
The material karmas are the doer (karta) of the psychic states of jiva in the capacity of supportive or the auxiliary factor (nimitta). Similarly, the psychic states are the doer (karta) in the capacity of extrinsic, supportive or the auxiliary factor (nimitta) of material karma from external, other-referential point of view (vyavahara naya). However, from an internal, self-referential point of view, jiva is the doer or causal agent of its own psychic states and material karman is the doer or causal agent of its own mutations or modifications. Moreover, neither the modifications of the psychic states of jiva nor the modifications in material karman can occur without some doer (PKS 60 and PKS 60 AC). In this case, the author makes a distinction between the substantive causal agent (upadana karta) and the extrinsic, supportive or auxiliary causal agent (nimitta karta).
In the transmigratory embodied existence, the self does not renounce or abandon the consciousness-as-such parinamika bhava. However, it undergoes distorted impure modifications of its own psychic states, which lead to an adhesive quality of deluded view, attachment, aversion since it is conditioned and affected by the beginningless karmic bondage. Similarly, karmic particles mutate into karma-bhava [of knowledge-obscuring, etc. karmas, PKS 66 AC] (that have the power to condition and affect psychic states) merely by close proximity and mutual interpenetration of the distorted or perverted psychic states acting as the extrinsic, supportive or auxiliary factor (nimitta) in this regard (PKS 65 and PKS 65 AC). There is, however, no direct causal relation between jiva and matter or material karma