Jaina Karmaology

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

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Jaina Karmology causes of the life-spans (which function to maintain vitalities or livingness of the living beings).
21. The physique-making karma has been placed after the life-span species as it is dependent upon the realisation of the life-span karma. It is observed that normally the realisation of destinities, class etc. corresponds with the life-span-determining karma.
22. The status-determining karma has been placed after the physique-making karma as the designation of low or high, auspicious or inauspicious for the living beings is based on the realisation of physique-making karma of body etc.
23. The obstructive karma is placed in the end because of the maxim of remainders, as there is no other karmic species left.
Supplementary Notes 1. The commentary deals with the following points: (a) There are eight primary species of bondage like knowledgeobscuring etc.. They could be defined in terms of nominative and instrumental case. (b). The singular number in the first term and plural number in the last term of the aphorism 8.4 could be explained on the basis of substantive and modal approaches in respective cases. (c) The karmic mattergies intaken by the soul are converted into eight types of primary species depending upon many physical and psychical factors. It is like the foods intaken by the body tranforming into different useful products by different agencies for running the living system. (d) There is difference between (i) delusion and knowledgeobscuring karma and (ii) knowledge-obscuring and conation-obscuring karma as their causes and effects are different. (e) The different primary species are transformed into their varied secondary species depending upon the potencies generated due to weak or strong influxing factors. (1) A single mattergic entity has intrinsic nature of manifold transformations in eight primary karmic species like the fire which can burn, cook, bake and lighten. It has one substantive form and many