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the processes of karmic bondage. Through the means of karmic influx the karma--matter enters the soul-field and through the process of bonding it gets stuck to the soul. It is the gradual process of karmic separation that renders the soul gradually purer and purer and then, if the means of karmic stoppage are in place, there comes a time when the karma-matter gets completely separated from the soul and it becomes absolutely pure. As we had mentioned in the characteristics of the living matter, the soul in its pure mode (liberated state) has a natural tendency to rise to the uppermost limit of the universe and reside there on the Siddhaśila or the Isatprāgbhāra-prthvi i.e. in the abode of the liberated souls. In this section of this chapter we shall examine the means and the process of such karmic destruction or separation.
Two Types Of Karmic Separation -
The karma-matter bonded with the soul gets destroyed or separated from it in two ways.
1. The karma-matter gets separated on yielding the due retribution when it comes to fruition. This is termed as Savipāka Nirjarā (separation on fruition) and is possible only of that karma-matter that has already matured and come to the stage of fruition (udaya). This type of karmic separation happens all the time. The individual aspiring to karmic separation must mark that if he takes the retribution of his actions due to him calmly and without remorse, thinking that it is his own actions that he is answering for and without resorting to despondent and angered thoughts, he does not bind new sets of karmamatter and his separation is final. On the other hand, the aspirant who resorts to remorse, despondence and anger while suffering the retribution of his earlier bonded karma binds new set of karma-matter while getting separated from the earlier bonded ones and the whole process TATTVĀRTHA (THE FUNDAMENTALS): 115
