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Jaina Karmology
145 example, the maturation of human or sub-human life-span karma can not be there through the hellish life-span. Similarly, there can not be maturation of conduct deluding karma through the faith deluding karma and vice-versa. These three mature only through their own natures, such as hellish life-span maturing in the form of hellish life-span only and not in the form of human or sub-human life-span. Q It is agreed that fruition is the maturation of different types of pre-accumulated variety of karmas. However, it is not known whether this process follows the nature or reflection of the karmas. A. It is opined that the fruition process reflects the nature of the specific karmas. The next aphorism supports this thesis by logic :
SA YATHĀ - NĀMA 8.22. The fruitional intensity bondage is named according to the names of the karmas producing the bondage 8.22. 1. It is known that the knowledge-obscuring karma results in the absence of knowledge and the conation-obscuring karma has an effect of blocking the conation power. Similarly, all other karmas have there meaningful names. Thus, all the karmic species and their varieties have their corresponding fruition or experience. Q. If maturation or fruition of karmas is taken as experiencing them, it has to be learnt whether the experienced karmas continue to remain as ornaments (like clothes and garlands attached to the embodied beings) or they fall off like bagasse after extracting juice form the canes. The following aphorism answers to this point :
TATAŠCA NIRJARĀ 8.23. After experiencing of fruition of karmas, they are dissociated, shed or fall off naturally. 8.23. 1. The dissociation is defined as the falling off of the pre-earned karmas. The karmas result in pains and pleasures of the self. During their experiencing, they offer pleasures and pains to us. After fruitions, they can not continue to remain with the self and they fall off due to the termination their duration like denatuation and excretion from cooked foods after they have been metabolised and have supplied the running energy for the living being. 2. The dissociation process operates in two ways:
(a) Normal or natural fruitional dissociation and
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