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(b) Pre-matural dissociation.
The individual self wanders in the great ocean of the world of four destinities and many births. He earns good or bad karmas which are gradually realised due to realisational volitions under realisational trail in normal course of their fruitions. Alternatively, the living being is bonded with either form of pleasure or pain feeling karma. While experiencing these karmas in course of time, they enter into the realisational trail to yield fruition which is matured at the termination of their duration. At this point realised karmas fall off. Thus, the falling off of realsed karmas in the normal process is called natural fruitional dissociation. The non-fruitional or pre-matural dissociation is that where the karmas do not have there normal times of fruition but they are made to fall off by special process like austerities etc. like artificial ripening of mangoes and bread-fruits (Panasa). The special processes allow the unrealised karmas to enter the realisation trail forcibly to undergo fruition. 3. The word 'Ca' (and ) in the aphorism 8.23 is meant to indicate other causes also for the dissociations of karmas mentioned in aphorism 9.2 (where austerities have also been mentioned as cause for karmic dissociation). Thus, the aphorism 8.23 means that karmic fall off does not only take place due to fruition of karmas, but it also takes place due to other causes too. 4.Q. It is opined that in the order of reals in aphorism 1.4, the dissociation is placed after stoppage (Samvara). Thus, the dissociation should be described later after stoppage has been described. Why it has been described here? A. The description of dissociation has been done here with a specific purpose of exclusion of repetition of the term 'fruition' later. If it has to be described later, this aphorism 8.23 would have to be repeated there. Thus, there is aphorismic brevity in describing dissociation here. 50. There is no use of the term dissociation in the aphorism 8.23. as it seems to be included in the term 'Bondage'. Just as the merit and demerit are included in the term 'bondage', similarly the term dissociation' also gets included in the term 'fruition bondage'. Its separate mention in 8.23 is, therefore, not necessary. A. This is not correct. The questioner has not understood the proper meaning of the two terms. The fruition is defined as the capacity
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