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ties when performing actions through mind, body and speech. This is called ásravá or inflow. Their existence with the soul for some duration is called Bandha or bondage.
When these bound karmas are ripened, they give agreeable or disagreeable results. They can be destroyed before their ripening-time by self-concentration. When there is no inflow of karmas through passions, the soul is called Ksinásrava or destroyer of inflow. Thus by checking inflow and by destroying the old accumulated karmas, the soul attains liberation or môksa or Nirvana.
Móksa has been described in Tattvârtha sutra by Umaswami thus:--
बंधहेत्वभावनिर्जराभ्यां कृत्स्नकर्मविप्रमोक्षो मोक्षः. Bandha hetva bhava nirjarâbhyâm kritsna karma
vipra móksô môksah.
“ Liberation (is) the freedom from all karmic matter, owing to the non-existence of the causes of bondage and to the shedding of karmic molecules.”
Before describing in detail the karmic philosophy as given in the Jain scriptures, it is advisable to let the readers know those passages in the Buddhist literature which in short give the description of karmas as is given in Jainism.
(1) Majjhim nika ya ; deotia sutta savvâsava.
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