Jaina Karmaology

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

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Jaina Karmology
91 The sub-species of knowledge-obscuring karma have been detailed. The next aphorism describes about the sub-species of conation-obscuring karma : CAKSU-RACAKSU-RAVADHI-KEVALĀNĀM NIDRĀNIDRĀ NIDRĀ PRACALA PRACALĀPRACALĀSTYĀNA GRADDHAYAŠCA 8.7.
There are nine sub-species of conation obscuring karma - (a) four relating to conation and (b) five relating to sleep. They are (1-4) obscuring of (1) visual (2) non-visual, (3) clairvoyant and (4) perfect conation and (v) sleep, (vi) deep sleep, (vii) drowsiness, (viii) deep drowsiness and (ix) somnambulism (actions during sleep). 8.7 1. The first four terms here refer to the first four kinds of conation-obscuring sub-species. It is due to this that they are mentioned seperately. (There is coupling compound here). Thus, one has (a) visual conation obscuring, (b) non-visual conation-obscuring, (c) clairvoyant conation-obscuring and (d) perfect conation-obscruing types of subspecies. 2. The sleep is defined as lying down to drive away the effects of (1) intoxication, (2) mental or nervous dis-order or distress and (3) fatigue due to physical causes. The term 'Ni-dra' (sleep) is a derivative word from the root 'Dra' with a prefix 'ni'. Thus, sleep is that by which the living being sleeps or feels slothful. It is also that which makes one sleep with dreams. 3. Deep sleep is defined as that sleep which comes over the normal sleep (and it is more instense). 4. The drowsiness is the action which makes the living beings shaking due to distress, excess labour (causing fatigue) and intoxication etc.. When free from normal sense activities, it induces non-natural movements of eyes and body (and head also) etc. even while sitting and it causes a feeling of a fragment of pleasure (due to resting ). 5. The deep drowsiness is the recurrence of drowiness over a period of time. 6. The somnambulism is a state under which the living being performs many types of wicked or other activities due to the manifestation of specific energy during the dreams. The term 'styå na+giddhi'is an etymological one having a meanig of 'slumber'(or dream) and “inflamed for actions' respectively. This leads to the same meaning of 'actions under dreaming state'. (The peculiarity of this