Ahimsa and Jainism

Author(s): Vijayvallabhsuri
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi

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comes briefly to this. According to the merit or demerit of a person, atoms of a peculiar subtle form, which we will call karma. matter, invade his soul or jiva, filling and defiling it, and obstructing is innate faculties. The Jainas are quite qutspoken on this point and explicitly. say, that karman is made up of matter, paudgalikam karma. This: must be understood literally, not as a metaphor, as, will be seen from the following illustrations. The soul or jiva is extremely light, and by itself, it has a tendency to move upwards.(updhvagauraha); but it is kept down by the karma matter with: which it is filled But, when it is entirely purged. of karma. matter., 4t Nirvana, it goes up wards in, a, straight line to the top of. the universe, the domicile. of the released, souls. T9; take ano ther example, the karma matter, within, a soul may assume different condition. It may be turbulent, as mud, in, water, which is, being stirfods: or, it may be inactive, as mud, in water when it has sejled, at. the bottom of, a, besin; gr. it may be completely neutralized, aș, when the clear water is, poured, off: after, the mud, has been precipitated: Here again it, is evident that karma is. regarded as a substaşce or matter, though, of an infigitely. more subtle, natyre thanı, tha impysitjats off, water
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