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I am the Soul
What is this great Mohaniya? Of the eight karmas, Mohaniya is the most dreadful. Also compared to all others, its period is the longest. The period of Mohaniya karma has been mentioned as 70 Krodakrodi Sagaropam - 55731 TTTTH . As many Sagaropams as you get by multiplying 70 crores by 70 crores. Not years, mind you! In the calculations, Sagaropam is the biggest measure of time.
It is not that a jiva binds itself in a Mohaniya karma of this magnitude always. For a specified variety of causes there are specified periods of karma bondage. So what really happens? The worldly life increases. How?
Consider this! Once if a Mohaniya Karma of 70 Krodakrodi Sagaropam magnitude binds on the soul, how many births does a jiva have to take to suffer its effects? Let us first look at the length of time. One Avasarpini is made of 10 Krodakrodi Sagaropam and similarly one Utsarpini is made of 10 Krodakrodi Sagaropam. Together one uvasrapini and one utsarpini make a Kalachakra. Three and a half such kalachakras are required before the peak of a Mohaniya karma can be reached in a 70 Krodakrodi Sagaropam period. In such a wide span of time, how many times can one die and be born? Let's presume only the fifth ara which is of 21,000 years. Presume a life-span of 100 years for a human, so there will be 210 lives and those presuming that all lives are human. Otherwise in the lower echelons there would be many more. Thus, if in one ara there can be hundreds or thousands of births, then how many can there be in a 70 Krodakrodi Sagaropam period? One does not escape with only a human life or that of an animal, and the jiva can neither go to the strata of Gods very often. So to complete the effect, one is bound to spend many lives in the Naraka too, and those again of the higher strata. If in those places, further Mohaniya karma of a high state is added then the chain is unending. Thus the link of births continues.
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