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It has been happening and in this, day by day, new questions and their answers have been leading to further development.
These renunciate groups have been considering different aspects separately according to their own convenience, but as long as the combined objective of all of them was to refute the doctrine of the creator, there was exchange of ideas among them and there was also unanimity. This is the reason why in the literature on karma in Nyaya-Vaisheshika, Sankhya Yoga, Jain and Buddhist philosophies, there is a lot of similarity in terms of definition, meaning, classification, etc. While the existing literature of the said philosophies is mostly from the time when the harmony between the said philosophies had diminished considerably.
There was already a problem before the liberationists that on the one hand, the old bound karmas are also infinite, on the other hand, new karmas are bound every moment at the time of experiencing their fruits in sequence, then how is the complete annihilation of all these karmas possible? The liberationists had also solved this problem very cleverly. Today we find the description of that solution in the literature of the said renunciate philosophies in brief or in detail.
This situation is sufficient to indicate that there was a lot of exchange of ideas among the different groups of renunciates. Despite all this, the time had come when these renunciate groups were not as close as before. Nevertheless, each group continued to speculate about the element of karma. In the meantime, it also happened that a separate group of karma thinkers became stable in a renunciate group, who thought deeply about karma rather than questions related to liberation and mainly studied it, just as other groups of thinkers did in their own subjects and still do today.
All liberationists agree on the causes of bondage of karma and the means of its annihilation, but there is a difference in the views of the above-mentioned group of thinkers regarding the nature of the element of karma. Atomic liberationists