Jain Journal 2014 07

SR No.: 520295
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 90
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLIX, NO. 1-IV JULY 2014 JUNE 2015
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Mahavira, are born mithyādựsti with the karmic load less then K=0,.85Kand greater than K.=0.75K. It means to achieve liberation that almost 85% of the karmic load is to be annihilated in the human birth-species and almost 65% of the karmic load is to be eradicated beyond the fourth spiritual stage. Purging of the large amount of the karmic load will require constant practice of wholesome moral conduct. To be born as a celestial being in the next birth, human beings have to reduce their karmic load from K/K, =0.85 to K/KN0.75, i.e. about ten percent only; they should be able to do it by performing karma with mild yoga-plus-kaşāya. On the other hand, human beings with an increase in the karmic load from KK,=0.85 to KH/K,-0.90 and K/K, -95 i.e. about five to ten percent only will be born as an infernal being in the next birth. Human beings should, therefore, be very careful in performing their deeds if they wish to avoid transmigration to the infernal birth-species.
Conclusion
The development of the life-form of living beings is characterized by the number and the potency of the vital powers, which in turn are determined by the karmic load accumulated in their karmic body. The development of the life-form of living beings is based on the rule that the spiritual and physical development of living beings occur with the decrease in their karmic load. Based on this rule a conceptual scheme between the number and the potency of the vital powers and the karmic load of living beings is presented to explain their evolution from the least developed to the most developed life-form.
References :
1. Tattvārtha Sutra of Umāsvāti, translated by Nathmal Tatia in That Which Is
(San Francisco : Harper Collins Publishers, 1994) sūtra 8.11, p. 195.
2. Ibid, sūtras 6.16-6.20, p 159-160
3. Ibid, sūtras 6.16.p. 159