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9. Nidhatti. This means that karma particles are prevented from
operation for a limited time. During this time, they are neither brought into operation prematurely, nor transformed into those of another sub-class, but they may suffer increase or decrease of duration and fruition. Nikacana. In this case, the karma particles are prevented from operation for a limited time during which premature operation, transference and increase or decrease in duration and fruition can not occur.
10.
Transference is of five kinds :
uvvelanavijjhādo adhāpav itto guņo ya savvo ya samkamadi jehim kammam pariņāmavasena jivāņam 409
There are the following five kinds of divisions by which karmas, by the thought-activities of souls, are transformed into other karmas.
1. Udvelana sankramana, the transference in which one type of
material karma is transformed into another without the following three kinds of thought-activities : adhah (downward), apūrva (new) and anivítti (advanced).
Vidhyata sankramana, the transference occuring when the soul has slight purity of thoughts. In this case, the duration and fruition are reduced due to such thought-activities.
3.
Adhahpravịtti sankramaņa, the transference occuring in the material karma from one type to another during their bonding.
4. Guņa sankramana, the transference in which the number of
material karma particles changes by several orders of magnitude.
5. Sarva sankramaņa, the transference of all material karma parti
cles in the possession of the soul.
The above concepts indicate that the soul can modify the material karma particles in its possession by appropriate thought-activity. Thus it is the soul and not karma which is more powerful. Details of transference have been described in the Jaina scriptures.
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