Gommatasara Karma Kanda

Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
जीवोत्ति हवदि घेदा उवोगविसेसिदो पहूकत्ता । भोत्तायदेहमत्तो णहि मुत्तो कम्म संजुत्तो॥
Jiva (mundane soul) is (always) combined with Karmas. This bondage of Karmas is from eternity, but when once it is broken and Liberation attained, then it is destroyed totally and for ever. Of course the matter of the bondage is freely and constantly being changed; but the fact and condition of the bondage of Jíva by Ajiva persist through all these changes. Old Karmic matter is shed ; and new assumed; but there never has been a moment when the mundane soul was free from its vestment of Karmic matter.
देहोदयेण सहिओ जीवो आहरदि कम्म णोकम्म। पडिसमयं सव्वंगं तत्तायसपिंडओव्व जलं ॥३॥ देहोदयेन सहितो जीव आहरति कर्म नोकर्म । प्रतिसमयं सर्वाङ्गं तप्तायः पिंडमिव जलम् ॥ ३ ॥
3. By the operation of the body sub-class of bodymaking Karma the soul attracts Karmic and quasi-Karmic (physical molecules) every instant to the whole body as a hot iron ball (draws in) water (from all sides).
Commentary. The soul united with the body, is constantly taking in material molecules to renew and build its Karmic and two other bodies. Karmic molecules build up the Karmic body; and the physical molecules build up the other physical bodies.
In all there are 5 possible bodies of a mundane soul (1) Audárika, the external physical body, (2) Vaikriyika, fluid body of the celestial and hellish beings, (3) Áháraka, the assimilative body in which a saint's soul flashes to an omniscient to resolve some doubt, (4) Taijasa, electric body, (5) Kármana, Karmic body. These are all material. The molecules of which they are formed are of 2 kinds. (1) Karma-vargana of which the Karmic body is made. (2) No-karma-varganá, of which the other bodies are made. The no-karma varganá is of 2 kinds,* Taijasa varganá, of which the electric body is formed ; and the Áháraka varganá, of which the external physical, fluid and áháraka bodies are made. Every embodied soul has at least 3 bodies, the Karmic, the electric and either
* 23 kinds of matter vargans are mentioned in Gommatagara, Jiva Kanda gatha 694 -- 595, pages 294--295.