Jainism Eternal and Universal Path for Enlightenment

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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replaced by Ksham 1 (forgiveness), Saralat? (simplicity), vinay (humility) and santosh (contentment) respectively. When this is achieved, the soul is free of
passions and mohaniya karma is eliminated. 5. Ayush karma: It determines the life span in the new incarnation. 6. Nima karma: It determines the personal traits of a jiva like body and health. 7. Gotra karma: It determines the yoni (species), family, social status etc in which
a jiva will be reborn. 8. Antar lya karma: It determines the various obstacles one faces in accomplishing
his goals.
Each of these karmas are further sub-divided into many groups, but it will suffice here to say that there are procedures for eliminating various karmas as discussed in Chapter 6. Each of these karmas are accrued in three ways, by physical action, by thought and by consent (anumodan) approving it to be done by others. Therefore one must not only refrain from wrong doing by himself, and not even think of wrong doing but also refrain from approving wrong doing by others. Karmas get bound to the soul and make it impure.How do the physical karmanus get attached to the non-physical soul? According to some Ach-ryas (e.g. Abhaydev Suri) the karmic matter (Karm 1 au) is fastened to the soul by leny's. Lety is a kind of psychic colouration and is of six types: namely black, blue, grey, fiery, yellow and white. The colour implies gradation from bad (pp) to good (punya) types of karma, white representing the highest punya karma.
Karma, Jñn and Guesth'ns are intimately related. As the bad karmas are shed, one moves to higher spiritual stage and acquires higher level of Jnin. We will discuss these aspects in the next chapter.