Jaina Karmaology

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

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88 origins. It has additional functions of different types of feelings and learning expressed through the senses. Thus, learning is a psychological processs. 6. This text has indicated the general effects of knowledgeobscuring karma in terms of (1) loss of capacity for learning and cognition (2) loss of memory (3) disinterest in religious sermons and (4) suffering due to ignorantial dis-respect. In contrast, the knowledge will have the reverse effects for better life and religiosity. That is why, the aphorism 1.13 mentions that sensory knowledge involves (1) sensory learning (2) memory, (3) recognition, (4) logic and (5) inference. All these forms of knowledge are based on mind with secondary roles of other senses. The psychologists have studied these processes and have given a number of details about their nature alongwith factors for causing and improving them. All of them are either the general or specific forms of learning which is nothing else but the degrees of destruction-cum-subsidence of knowledge-obscuring karma or removal of ignorance through observation, training, practice and insight. It involves motor learning, verbal learning, problem solving, concept learning etc. All of these forms come under the category of sensory knowledge. All these have cognitive, conative and affective factors. The factors accruing different types of learning have been mentioned in terms of (1) motivation (2) practice (3) social and natural environment (4) genetics (5) stimulus-response connections (6) physiology and (7) autonomus and central norvous system. The learning effects behaviour and life-style. 7. The memory is defined as the capacity to store information from earlier learning process, retain it and reproduce it when required. It is a mental process involving learning, retention, recall, recognition and localisation. It may be short term or long term. It is expressed in the form of pronoun that. The meditating people have spread the fragrance of religiosity through it.
The psychologist would not mention karma as one of the factors for the process of learning. However, alongwith the above factors, we may add the karmic factor also.
It is now learnt that brain- the physical mind has specific centers for different types of activities, feelings and emotions. It serves as a constant storage and disposal house for various types of informations. When a mental process occurs in brain, these specific centers are physically, physiologically or chemically effected to indicate the result. The brain consists of two main matching