Jain Journal 1981 01

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Jaina philosophy and vāsanā born of this perceptible action and avijñapti (unmanifested matter) are dravyakarma.
The Vijnanavadin Buddhists determine karma by the word vāsanā. Prajnakara opines that whatever kāryas (effects or actions) are there, all of them are born of vāsana (desire). 34 It is the root of all these, whether you call it God or Karma, Prakrti or anything else. If one accept just God, as the root of the varieties of the universe even then it would not do without admitting vāsanā. That is to say, the currents of all these rivers like God, Prakrti and Karma become one by uniting into the sea of vāsanā.35
In the view of the Sunyavadins the other name of māyā (illusion or anāndi avidya (beginningless ignornance) is vāsanā. 36 In the Vedantic view also the cause of multifariousness of the universe is the beginningless ignorance or illusion. 37
The Mimansaka view on the nature of Karma
The Mimansakas admit the existence of an entity named apūrva38 which is born of actions like sacrifices, etc. Their argument is this that
34 Abhidharmakosa, 4 ; Keith's Buddhist Philosophy, p. 203. 35 karyatvat sakalam karyam vasanabalasambhavam!
kumbhakaradikaryam va svapnadarsanakaryavar|| Pradhanamisvarah karma yadanyadapi kalpyatel vasanasangasammudhacetah prasyanda eva sah// pradhananam pradhanam tad isvaranam tathesvaram/ sarvasya jagatah kartri devata vasana para|| asakyamanyatha kartumatra saktih kaiham mata/ vasanabalatah so'api tasmadevam pravartate|| iti pradhanesvarakartravadanadyah sada sighravahah pravrttah/ visantya evadvayatam prayanti tadvasanameyasamudrameval/
-Pramanavartikalankara, A.M.4, p. 75. Vide also, Nyayavataravartika-vrtti, pp. 177-8. Tippan. 36 sarvajnasyesvarasyatmabhute ivavidyakalpite namarupe tattvanyatvabhya
manirvacaniye samsaraprapancabijabhute sarvajnasyesvarasyabhilapyete,
tabhyamanyah sarvajnah isvarah, SBha., 2.1. 14. 37 tadevam avidyatmakopadhiparicchedapek samevesavarasyesvaratvam sarvajna
tvam sarvasaktimattvam cam na paramarthato vidyapastasarvopadhisvarupe atmansitrisitavyasarvajnatvadivyavahara upapadyate, SBha., 2.1. 14. apurva punarasti yate arambhah sisyate "svargakamo yajeteti"/itaratha hi vidhanamanarthakam syat, bhangityat yagasyal yadyanyadanutpadya yago vinasyet, phalamasati nimitte na syat tasmadutpadyatitil, Sabara-Bhasya, 2.1.5. phalaya vihitam karma ksanikam cirabhavine tatsiddhirnanyathetyevamapurvam pratigamyatell, Tantravartika, 2.1.5 evam yagaderapurvasvargadisadhanasaktikalpanamuhaniyam, Sastradipika, p.80. Vide also Nyayavataravartika-vrtti, p.179.