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A. The action performed due to activistic volitions is termed as karma. That is the main cause of bonding of the soul. The quasi-karma is defined as mattergic modification like gross body etc. due to karmic frution and which is the cause of exerting a force for experiencing pleasure and pain. It can be designated as 'little karma' (İṣat).
Besides the definition, there is also difference between the two due to difference in their duration. The duration of karmas will be described in eighth chapter. The duration of quasi-karmas is described here :
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The Jaina world of Non-living
The gross and protean bodies have karmic drippings equal to their duration.
(5) The luminous body has duration of 66 Sagaras.
(6) The duration of karmic body should be taken as that which corresponds to the maximum duration of the specific karmic species like knowledge obscuring etc.
The duration of physique-making karma of gross body, protean body, luminous body and karmic body is 20 crore X crore Sāgaras ( 20 × 10' x 10' = 2 × 10" Sagaras) each.
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The duration of gross body is 3 Palyopama (pit-based time unit), years, which means its duration varies from one Samaya (time unit) upto three Palyas.
The protean body has a duration of 33 Sagaras (a bigger pit-based time unit). It means it lasts from one Samaya unit upto 33 Sāgaras. The ejectable body has a duration of one Antarmuhurta (App.48 minutes).
The duration of physiqus-making karma of ejectable body is little less than 1 x 10" Sagaras.
10. The fineness has two varieties absolute and relative. The absolute fineness is found in atoms. The relative fineness is observed in wood-apple, myrabolan and plums etc.
11. Similarly, there are two kinds of grossness-absolute and relative. The absolute grossness is found in the largest aggregate pervading the whole universe. The relative grossness is found in plums, myrabolan, wood apple and palmyra fruit etc.
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