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Gommatasar Karmakanda - 701
The state of being imperfect (asiddhabhava) arises from the emergence of four destructive karmas. It is of two types: anadi-ananta (beginningless and endless) and sadi-santa (beginningless and finite). Those whose state of imperfection is anadi-ananta are abhavya jivas (non-liberated beings), and those whose state of imperfection is sadi-santa are bhavya jivas (liberated beings). Therefore, bhavya and abhavya are also vipaka-pratyayika (dependent on the result of karma).
**Doubt:** In the Tattvartha Sutra, these are called parinamika (resultant). How is this statement not in contradiction with that?
**Solution:** No, because the anadi-ananta and sadi-santa nature of asiddhatva is without a cause (nishkarana). It is understood that they are accepted as parinamika there.
"In the ten pranas (life forces), the jiva lives, lived, and will live, by the experience of life in the three times (past, present, and future), through the pranaparyaya (cycle of life forces)." Thus, the jiva is defined. Given this definition, even the siddhas (liberated beings) are jivas, because they lived in the past through the ten pranas. Currently, the siddhas do not live through the ten pranas. Their jivatva (state of being a jiva) is due to the past, according to the aupacharika (conventional) nay (viewpoint). According to the mukhya (principal) nay, the siddhas are also jivas. There is no fault in this, because they are also jivas in the present, due to the experience of the bhava-pranas (life forces of knowledge and perception).
**Doubt:** Aupacharika and other bhava (states) cannot be formed, because the soul is formless (amurta). These aupacharika and other bhava are dependent on karma-bandha (binding of karma), but the binding of karma to the formless soul is not possible.
**Solution:** There is anekanta (many-sidedness) regarding the formlessness of the soul. It is not a one-sided view that the soul is only formless. Due to its association with the paryay (category) of karma-bandha, it is somewhat formful (murta), and due to its pure nature, it is somewhat formless (amurta).
**Doubt:** If this is the case, then when the soul becomes united with karma-bandha, does the soul not become indistinguishable from karma?
**Solution:** This is not a fault. Although there is no distinction due to the binding, the soul is known to be distinct due to the difference in characteristics. It is also said:
1. Dharma Purana 14, pages 13-14.
2. Rajavartika 9-4-7.
3. Sarvarthasiddhi, chapter 2, verse 7.