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Notes
. Q. 356. The acquisition of kårman sarira is due to eight types of karma indentified by the Jainas. Six factors like hostility to knowledge and to wise men etc., are the cause of karma enshrouding knowledge. Similarly there are six enshrouding faith. Ten factors bind karma giving pleasant experiences and twelve factors bind karma giving unpleasant experiences. Six factors like violent rage, etc, give rise to karma causing delusion. Four factors impart life-span. Great endeavour, great acquisiticn, slaughter and taking meat give life in hell. Attachment, falsehood, etc., give animal life. Humility, politeness, compassion, etc., give the life of man. Restraint with attachment, part restraint, penances of a fool, etc., give life in heaven. Four factors, good as well as bad, generate karma giving a name. Pride, good or bad, determines the line of descent. Karma creating obstruction is generated from obstruction to gift, gain, enjoyment, etc.
Q. 394. Aradhana means the most rigorous fulfilment of the rules and prescriptions without any lapse. This applies to knowledge, faith and conduct.
Q. 406. The transformation of matter from one state to another is called poggala-pariņāma.
Q. 418. That which remains indivisible even by the knowledge of the omniscient is called abibhāga-palichedā.
Q. 424. et. seq. The two words 'bhajana' and 'niyama' occur at many places in the Jaina texts. The former refers to a possibility while the latter to an inevitability. For instance, in some human beings, karma enshrouding knowledge and faith and karma causing delusion and obstruction may or may not exist, but the other four, viz., karma giving experience, life-span, name and linca ge exist as a rule. In the remaining twenty-three species (dandakas), all the eight types of karna exist as a rule. The perfected souls are free from the clutches of karma. The bhajanā and niyamā of eight types of karma take 28 forms whose distribution is as follows : Karma enshrouding knowledge takes seven, karma enshrouding faith six, karma giving experience five, karma causing delusion four, karma giving life-span three, karma giving name two and karma giving lineage one, total 28. The details are contained in the text.
