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Now we will explain which karmas are absorbed by the jivas in which regions and what is the process of absorption.
It has been clarified earlier that the entire universe is filled with pudgala dravya. This pudgala dravya is divided into many categories like audarika, etc. and because of being pudgalatmak, these are found in the entire universe. Among these categories, karma-vargana is also one, therefore karma-vargana is also present everywhere in the universe. Out of these universal karma-varganas, each jiva absorbs those karma-varganas which are closest to it. **Ayakshetogadha** - meaning the karma-varganas present in the region closest to the jiva are absorbed by the jiva. Just like when a heated iron ball is dropped into water, it absorbs the water closest to it but not the water far away, similarly, the jiva absorbs the karma-varganas present in the same sky regions where it is situated. The process of absorption of karmas by the jiva is like this: just as a heated iron ball, when dropped into water, pulls water from all sides, similarly, the jiva also absorbs karmas from all its regions.
1. (a) **Ayakshetogadha** sabya pade sehi kammani jogga. Bandham maghehi ya anadiyam shadiy ubhvam || Go. Karmakand 185
A jiva binds anadi, madi and ubhvam forms of dravya which are capable of becoming karma in a single region, when it gets the cause in all regions.
(b) Ragpaesogavae sabpaye mehi mano jogge. Jivo pomaladache gipahai mai anai da - panchamagraha 284
A jiva absorbs madi or anadi pudgala dravya which are capable of becoming karma in a single region, from all its regions.