Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM the less is the resulting being ignorant and biased; the more there is of the influence of matter in the compound, the more is the living being ignorant, angry, and greedy.
So the combination of soul with matter produces energies (karma) the totality of which together with the soul constitute the man or other mundane living being. These energies can be considered with regard to their nature (prakriti), their duration or how long they will stay with the soul (sthiti), their intensity (anubhaga), and their mass (pradesha). Also with regard to the generation of them; how they can be got rid of before their natural time; and how the inflow of them into the being can be stopped.
Regarding these energies from the point of view of their nature, function, or action, there are in us 158 of them, and they can be grouped together under 8 classes, the nature of each class being quite different from the natures of the other classes.
Before classifying these 158 energies the point of view must be changed. To introduce the change we may say from Geo. T. Ladd's “Theory of Reality,” page 357: How ready men are to recognize in their own existence the presence of ideas and forces not consciously their own. He (man) is very largely the product of other “Being” which penetrates his self and yet which is known as not identical with his self. The point of view is now changed from thinking of man as a unit resulting from the combination of soul and matter, and he is now thought
of as an impure soul; men are souls (with bodies).