Book Title: ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02
Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
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and intensity of the bondage of new karmas as well as the accumulated ones. This is made possible by the following four sub processes, which begin simultaneously from the very first, instant of the main process:
1. Sthitighāta: destruction of duration 2. Rasaghāta: destruction of intensity 3. Gunaśreņi: the construction of a complex series of the groups of karmic atoms, arranged
in geometrical progression with an incalculable common ratio, transplanted from the mass of karmic matter that would have come to rise after an antarmuhurta for the sake of
their premature exhaustion by fruit and 4. Apūrvasthitibandha: an unprecedented type of bondage of small duration, whose length
much smaller than that the duration hitherto bound.
The soul undergoes yet another sub process known as: 5. Gunasaṁkramana transference of karmic matter.
This process transfers a portion of the karmic matter of the inauspicious type of karma to some other types of karma. The mass of karmic matter thus transferred increases every moment until the end of the apūrvakarana process.
There are thus five characteristics sub-processes in the process of apūrvakarana. At the end of this process the knot (granthi) is cut, never to appear again.
The first process of yathāpravíttakarana leads one face to face with the knot and the second process of anivịttakaraṇa leads the soul to the verge of the dawn of the first enlightenment that comes like a flash on account of the absolute subsidence of the karmic matter of the vision deluding mithyātva-mohaniya karma.
The soul undergoes the same five sub-processes in the process of antarakarana, whereby the soul divides into two parts the karmic matter of the vision deluding Karma that was to come into rise after the anivettikarana. The first of the two parts the soul forces into rise during the last few instants of anivrttikarana while the rise of the second part is postponed for an antarmuhurta during which no karmic matter of the vision deluding karma is allowed to rise and produce its effect on the soul. Thus at the end of the process of anivettikarana the vision deluding karma has no effect on the soul for an antarmuhurta. This antarmuhūrta is the period when the souls enjoys the first dawn of enlightenment or the spiritual vision i.e.
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