Jaina Karmaology

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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All these five causes of bondage have two varieties eachphysical and psychical. The psychical causes lead to physical bondings of karmas. There is the relationship of cause and the caused between these two varieties. 9. It may be pointed out here that there are five canonical traditions regarding the causes of karmic bondage as shown in the table
S. No. Tradition Source
Causes 1-cause
Delusion 2 2-causes Dhavala,
Activity, passion, Kundkunda
Attachment, Averison 4-causes Karma praksti,
Activity, passion, Kundkunda
wrong faith, non
abstinence 5-causes Bhagavati,
Activity, passion, Umāsvāmi
wrong faith, nonabstinence, non
vigilance 6-causes Kundkunda
Activity, passion, wrong faith, nonabstinence, non
vigilance, ignorance It is observed that the tradition of 2,4 or 5 causes of karmic bonding is just the explanatory extension of the one-cause theory for the benefit of lay disciples. One can easily guess that non-vigilance is a form or product of non-abstinence which could be included in passions. Similarly, wrong faith and non-abstinenece are not very much different from the basic nature of passions. Hence, we have only two causes for bonding in essence :
(i) Activity or Yoga (ii) Passion ( non-abstinence, non-vigilance, wrong faith).
Thus, insistence on particular tradition of causes becomes only discretionary rather than debatery. It could, however, be mentioned that the two-cause bondig refers to bonding of a single karmic species. In contrast, we have four or five causes of bonding based on spiritual stages where different karmic species and vice-versa as shown below : No. Spiritual stage
Causes