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Mahavira & Doctrine of Karma / 75
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Technology of Karma
There exists an intimate relationship between the self and the karma. This relationship has to be destroyed before liberation is achieved. The different states of the self are related to the functions of its vibration and passions. The influx of bondage creating activities is due to the energy of the self. The activity (yoga) of the self is an expression of the energy of the self. Here yoga is energy influenced by passions. The freedom of the self from yoga results in complete cessation of all association between it and the karma. The different process through which karmic matter passes are conditioned by numerous kinds of activities which are called 'techniques of energy'. Techniques of energy are classified into eight types, (i) the condition of energy which causes bondage, (ii) the condition of energy which causes transformation, (iii) the condition of energy which leads to increased realization, (iv) the condition which leads to decreased realization, (v) the condition responsible for premature realization, (vi) the condition which causes quiescence, (vü) the condition which makes the karma incapable of all process except the third and fourth, (viii) condition which makes karmas incapable of all karanas. (Techniques of energy). Every change in the self leads to a corresponding change in karma. Likewise every change in the karma leads to a corresponding change in the self.
