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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
It is not an accepted principle that material or a gross body cannot affect an abstract or spiritual entity. Knowledge is abstract, still spirituous drinks, like poisons etc, do affect it and clarified butter milk etc. do foster it. Thus material 'Karmas' do affect the power of spiritual soul. Still further let us know that a soul wandering in the world cannot be totally abstract, as an iron bar, red hot in fire itself becomes the fire. By the soul's primeval contact with the 'Karmas' it might assume material form from the consequent nature of Karmas. So the influence of a material body on other material body is not impossible and therefore 'Karmas' do affect or influence the soul.
Some interprete Karma' as destiny and thereby condemn fatalism, but the doctrine of Karma as propounded by Jainism is neither fatalism nor predestination. It is on the contrary a great science, solving many mysteries of the universe. It conveys the sublime message af "Manly-efforts" on the whole, and on the contrary.
You would also bear in mind that Jainism is completely interspersed with the doctrine of 'Karma'. If you just study the treatment of ‘nine-entities' you will properly realise this fact.
NINE-ENTITIES AND THE DOCTRINE OF KARMA
Those who have studied 'Prakarana-Granthas' must be wellconversant with the names of 'Nine-entities' (Nav-Tatva).
In the very beginning of the chapter of 'Nav-tatvas' it is said :
“Soul, non-soul, religious merits, sins, inflow of actions, stoppage of actions, consumption of actions, contamination and salvation (Jeeva, Ajeeva, Punya, Papa, Ashrava, Samvara, Nirjara, Bandna, Moksha respectively)".
All the entities of the universe or the world are covered by these two entities viz. Jeeva and Ajeeva. So these entities should be specifically understood.
Jeeva (Soul) means an entity possessed of animation-life, i.e. Atma (soul). Ajeeva (non-soul) means the entity "inanimate". It has five varieties. Dharma, Adharma, Aksha, Kala and pudgala moti(vating entity, stabilizing entity, space, time and matter
