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The Jaina world of Non-living
between the charged embodied living and charged karma particles, it could be represented as Karmically bonded living + new karmas (due to volitional or other activities) —— New karmic bond (this may also be associated with dissociative process).
The Jaina texts have mentioned about the possible nature and charges for different activities :
1. 2. 3.
delusion /aversion attachment Infinite Bliss etc.
Sinful Heavy - charge good/bad Heavy/light - charge Auspicious Light + charge
Bhagavāti Sūtra also says that the living and karmas are tied, touching, interpenetrating and affixed with each other by the attracting glue-like substances (charges ?). The energetic, durational and strong austeritic considerations (no thermal change, longer duration, harder penances) in the process indicate it to be of highly physical nature bordering chemical bond occurring between two material entities (embodied soul and karmas).
The earlier aphorisms mention the terms 'realities' (Dravyas) with the living ones as one of them. However, the realities have not been characterised as yet. The aphorism 5.38 indicates that they have differentia (which could be expressed in another form with reference to the earlier aphorisms 5.29-30): Guņa-paryaya-vat Dravyam
5.38 The realities are characterised by attributes and modes 5.38. 1 Q. The realities have attributes and modes. As the two are nondifferent, the possessive suffix of Matup' (Vat), does not stand scrutiny here. However, if the two are taken as different, there will be possibility of their non-existence. A. This is not correct. The possessive suffix is also abserved in case of non-different entities like the ring of gold. The realities may be
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