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KARMAS AND THEIR FRUITS 209 new molecules are added to it, which are attracted by yoga power, when any of the three, mind, body and speech is working and causing soul vibrations. This shedding and binding is going on in all the mundane souls at every instant. Vegetable, animal, human and other beings all have to obey this karmic law.
___ The Jain scripture, therefore, describes this mundane soul as material like, because it is totally obscured by material karmas just as sky is obscured by smoke, sun-light is obscured by clouds or water is made impure by dirt. If once all the karmic molecules are shed off, this soul will at once attain Nirvana and remain nonmaterial, and it is in essence like a sky.
As the nature of pure sky is not affected by matter, so the nature of pure liberated soul cannot be affected by karmas. In the mundane life, this soul is from beginningless time totally obscured by karmic matter. It is why it experiences its fruits good or bad.
Saint Amritachandra says in Tattvârthasara :यजीवः सकषायत्त्वात्कर्मणो योग्य पुद्गलान् । आदत्ते सर्वतो योगात् स बन्धः कथितोजिनैः ॥१३॥ न कर्मात्म गुणोऽर्तेस्तस्य बंधा प्रसिद्धितः। अनुग्रहोपघातौ हि ना मूर्तेः कर्तुमर्हति ॥ १४ ॥
औदारिकादि कार्याणां कारणं कर्म मूर्तिमत् । नामूर्तेन मूर्ताना मारम्भः कापि दृश्यते ॥ १५॥ न च बन्धप्रसिद्धिः स्यान्मूर्तेः कर्मभिरात्मनः ।
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