________________
Karma particles bonded at different samaya and coming to fruition in the same samaya come to fruition together. The resultant fruits depend upon the combined potency of all these karmas. From the moment of bondage to that of fruition, karmic particles are bonded with the soul in the form of karmas. After giving fruits they get separated from the soul. This is called shedding of karmas after maturity (savipāka). Some accomplished ascetic with the power of his austerities sheds his karmas forcing them to come to fruition in advance of their natural time of fruition. This is called premature (avipāka) shedding.
The fruits of karma are in proportion to the potency of the karma. The fruits depend on the nature (prakṛti) of the specific active karma and not on that of any other karma. For example the potency of knowledge-obscuring karma bestows fruits of high or low intensity according to the nature of knowledge-obscuring karmaonly, and not according to the nature of perception obscuring or any other karma.
This rule about potency of fruits according to nature of karma is applicable only to the basic types of karma prakṛtis and not on the subsidiary ones. The basic prakṛtis are non-transformable, but the subsidiary prakṛtis are transformable into other subsidiary prakṛtis but of the same category. This rule of transformation is also not uniform for all types. For example the Darśana Mohaniya (perception deluding) karma cannot be transformed into Caritra Mohaniya (conduct deluding) in spite of being of belonging to the same category.
UNIQUE ASPECTS OF KARMIC BONDAGE
There are various causes of bondage of basic karmas. On chance occurrence of such causes these karmic particles get bonded with soul and when they come to fruition they give fruits according to their nature. Therefore, it is important to know about these causes and fruits.
Bondage of karmas is consequent to aśrava (inflow). On confluence of a cause, first of all there is an inflow of karmas and then bondage of these karmas with soul follows. Beings infested with passions get into the bondage of karmas and those who are free of passions (from eleventh to thirteenth Guṇasthāna) only go through the process of inflow through yoga but in absence of passions the bondage does not occur. Basically passions are the cause of the bondage of
149
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
