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The Jaina Theory of Karma and Current Scientific Views :
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of creativity and complex, which do not have any place. One could include the inferiority complex in status-determining karma indirectly, still one will have to find place for creativity. However, it could be included in knowledge-obscuring karma. This point alone will equate karmavāda with determinism--- a point refuted by scholars logistically because the theory has a large incentive for transformation and mutation by changing the nature of influx through austerities and meditation. It must, however, be pointed out that the idea about instincts and emotions has been modified and their number has been reduced to three (anger, fear and pleasure), others being suggested as motivations and drives.” It is these emotions, which lead to specific action. These are shown in the Table 5.
Mahāprajña suggests that emotional stimulations could well be equated with fruition of different karmas. However, the incompleteness in the karmic emotional counts must be rectified.
The variety of physical, vocal and mental behaviours is now supposed to originate from the stimulations and interactions between individual aura and emotion carriers. All stimulations are normally waves of electro-static or electro-magnetic in nature, which produce a superimposed wave with specific frequency due to aura and excite the different brain centres in the hypophthalamus and other parts to analyse and direct the response through nervous system to behave in a way it is observed. It is now recognised that the hypophthalamus and other regions in the brain have specific centres for receiving sensory drives for sleep and arousal, intelligence and learning, pleasure and pain, hunger and thirst, sex and memory and the like. Weber-Fechner have empirically noted a correlation between stimulants and sensations as
S = K InR (K = constant, R = sensations, effects) Table 5. Details about Behaviours, Emotions and Karmas
Propensity Self-assertive Acquisitiveness Curiosity
Emotions Insistence/Excellence Ownership/Authority Inquisitiveness
Instincts Pride Possession
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Karmas (Nature) Pride, CD Greed, CD Knowledge - obscuring Conationobscuring
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