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JAINA PHILOSOPHY : AN INTRODUCTION
Intensity :
The intensity of the effect of karma depends upon the weakness or strength of the passions (kaṣāyas). In accordance with the four degrees of the passions, four degrees of the strength of karma have been recognised by Jainism The more sinful a person is, the duration of his bad karmas is longer. The stronger the effect of his badness, the weaker the effect of his good species. With an increased purity the duration as well as the intensity of the bad species decreases, while the intensity of the good species grows. With the bad species, the fourth degree of intensity is produced by the most violent passions, i.e., the anantānubandhi kaşāyas. The third degree is caused by the apratyākhyānāvaraṇa kaṣāyas, the second by the pratyākhyānāvaraṇa kașāyas and the first by the sañjvalana kaṣāyas. With regard to the good species, the sañjvalanas produce the fourth, pratyākhyānāvaraņas the third and the apratyākhyānāvaraņas the second. The intensity of the first degree does not exist with the good species.' Quantity :
The soul assimilates only that karmic matter which is within its own pradeśas, and not that lying outside, just as fire seizes only that inflammable material which is lying within its reach. The matter assimilated by the soul is divided into the eight species of karma. The shares which fall to the eight species differ from one another. The age-determining species (āyus) receives the smallest part, a greater portion goes to the physique-making (nāman) and heredity-determining (gotra) species which both obtain equal portions. More than that goes to the knowledge-obscuring (jñānāvaraṇīya), intuitionobscuring (darśanāvaraṇīya) and power-hindering (antarāya) species, each of which gets an equal portion. Still a larger part than these falls to the deluding (mohanīya) species and the greatest of all goes to the feeling-producing (vedanīya) species. 1.Doctrine of Karman in Jain Philosophy, p.24.
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