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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
All the phases of a karma are to be enjoyed for a period of hundred years.
First, the phases of primary series are manifested and thereafter the next series follows. Thus phases of all the series are manifested enjoyed and consumed one after the other.
When enjoyable Karmas of the first series are being manifested, enjoyable phases of the remaining series are in dormant state. When those phases are being enjoyed the period taken by the entire series is called UDAYAVALIKA. The phases of Karma undergoing the series of manifestation are not affected by a particular kind of process called Karana but the phases of Karmas of the forthcoming series which lie in dormant existence are affected by "Karana".
Nirjara or consumption of Karmas arises when Karmic particles in the preceding series to be enjoyed are duly awarded for and thereby destroyed.
Pains and pleasures arise from Karmas which are revealed and consumed. So no man of wisdom should be puffed up in happiness nor should he get nervous in miseries.
Now what is AVALIKA? Technically speaking, an Avalika takes a period of innumerable moments but in actual practice one cannot count a period of innumerable moments. So the authors of the scriptures have laid down the measurement that 1, 67, 77 or 216 Avalikas are covered in 48 minutes. So minutest possible part of a second represents Avalika. The Karmas enjoyed in each of such Avalika are not affected by Karana.
A particular Karma to be enjoyed for a period of 100 years, has many divisions in the form of Avalikas. None can decide which Avalika or a series would be first enjoyed and which would be enjoyed next. The order of enjoyment or experience is determined by the power of the Soul itself.
The Karmas which are matured, i.e., which have exhausted their period of dormant existence, are all manifested at a time, enjoyed at a time and consequently reaped and consumed.
The entire bustle and fabrication of this world is attributed to the rise of Karmas. Man with his power of wisdom and intelligence
