Jaina Karmaology

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

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94 2. The Svetambara version of this aphorism 8.7 has a term ‘Vedaniya' (feeling/experiencing) in the second part of the aphorism. Akalanka has not commented on it. However, it expresses that the five sub-species of sleep etc. are themselves obscurers of vision. Their experience or occurrence indicates realisation of this karma. In contrast, the four conations like occular or others have an innate nature of vision and it is obscured by the conation-obscuring karma. It is because of this difference that they have been called differentiated from the karma in semi-aphorism 8.7.1. 3. The word 'Ca' (and) in the aphorism 8.7 indicates addition i.e. the first four and the next five sub-species are to the added to make up nine species of conation-obscuring karma. 4. The conation is defined as a conscious effort towards cognising an object. It has four varieties as in aphorism 8.7.
Bhaskarnandi has explained that occular conation leads to see (and know about) the form of objects and self through the physical and psychical sense of sight. In contrast, the non-occular conation refers to experience (or learn about) objects through the senses other than sight. There are four such senses of (1) touch, (2) smell (3) taste and (4) hearing. Besides, mind is also a quasi-sense. Hence, it is also included in non-occular conations. The non-occular conation-obscuring karma obscures the proper functioning of these senses. These five non-occular conations have been grouped under the single head of non-occular conations as there is similarity in the process of their functioning like the occular conation. 5. The rest of the two conations-clairvoyance and prefect, can also be defined as conscious efforts towards their corresponding cognitions. There is no telepathic conation corresponding to the telepathic knowledge as it does only know about the objects in the minds of others. It does not have general or indeterminable sight of the objects. Secondly, Dhavalā points out that the telepathic knowledge is preceded by sensory knowledge. Hence, there could be no telepathic conation. 6. The last five sub-species represent five forms of sleep. They are the sub-species of conation-obscuring karma as they obscure the innate qualities of knowledge and conation of the self-experience and power of the self to grasp or see the external objects. They are, by themselves, the conation-obscuring karma.
7. The term “Darsana' (conation) has many meanings with reference to context: