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The mundane soul really Deeds few objects, but out of greed it wants to amass more and more. It leaves them behind while departing from this world. This perverted, pernicious and wrong attitude is the result of this Mohaniya karma. As long as this Mohaniya karma exists the soul is unable to make desired progress on the path of Nirvana
(5) Ayuh karma determines the length of life in a particular body. This karma makes the soul captive in a particular body for a limited period in the four conditions of life. Due to this karma a person enjoys long lease of life or prematurely dies. This karma is like a clock. When we wind a clock it moves on and indicates correct time, but if it is disturbed, its winding screw gets affected and the clock stops all of a sudden. Similarly, a soul inhabits a particular body in accordance with this karma but if one disturbs the operation of this karma, the soul soon departs to occupy another body which has been pre-arranged by this very Jiva due to his dispositions. Premature death occurs when a person is poisoned or is haunted by serious sickness without necessary medical aid etc. Thus the span of life is cut short. This premature death has been termed as Akala-maran. Jain view is that life can be cut short but it cannot be prolonged beyond the limit fixed in the previous birth. The pious souls are born as heavenly beings or happy persons. One devoted to mammon-worship and in-ordinate greed becomes a brute or a hellish being and suffers untold miseries. Socrates had said, "The sensual soul...goes
