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JAINA VIEW OF KARMA COMPARED WITH ......
cravings in the soul attract to it particular sort of matter particles and organize them into the body unconsciously desired.36
Liberation, or mukti, is for soul (Jiva) only when its all karmas are exhausted. Dr. N. N. Bhattacharya opined that the Jaina conception of Mokṣa and the Buddhist conception of Nirvana appear to have derived their main impulses from the Samkhya idea of liberation is refuted here, on account of Jainism mainly based on theory of ātmā, karma and liberation and hence the concept of ātmā is percolated in Vedic philosophy."
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According to the Samkhya the cause of suffering is attributed to ignorance, and hence freedom from suffering is to be attained through right knowledge of reality, a main attribute of ātmā according to Jaina. Knowledge provides distinction between the self and not self or according to Jaina jīva (soul) and non-jīva (pudgala). Samkhya thinkers advocate all pleasures and pains belong to the mind-body complex, which acts or causes to act. The soul is quite different from this complex, a passive spectator, a transcendent subject whose very nature is pure consciousness, freedom, eternity and immorality. The attainment of liberation means the clear recognition of the self as a realty, which is beyond time and space, mind and body, and hence essentially free, eternal and immortal.
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According to Samkhya-Yoga, the variety and complexity and resulting in equality are due to five klesas, like asmitā, avidyā, rāga, dveṣa and abhiniveśa, which are responsible in creating saṁskāra. Samskara has also been referred to as asaya, vāsanā, karma and apūrva. And hence klesa and samskara are the rest cause of the wheel of life."
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Sufferings in the world and to be free from it are the philosophy of Samkhya but the Jainas is independent of it. However
36Dr. N. N. Bhattacharya, "Jain Philosophy, Historical Outline", P-208
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Ibid, P-210
38 Samkhya-sutra, 111.23.4, Samkhya-kārikā and Sämkhya-sutra and vṛtti, V.74.83
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Yogadarśana-bhāṣaya, 1.5, P- 428
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