Niyamsara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Uggar Sain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
Commentary. The universe is full of souls. They are of two kinds :Liberated and Mundane.
Liberated souls are those which are quite free from karmic dirt and have no possibility of ever appearing again in the cond tions, which arise from the bondage of the karmic matter with the soul. They are all-powerful, all-knowing, all-perceiving, allblissful, and absorbed in their own real and pure nature. These liberated souls always maintain their individual existence and abide at the topmost of the univers e.
Mundane souls are those souls which are in bondage of karmic matter. It is on account of this matter that they exist in the universe, in different conditions of life, and experience innumerable kinds of pain and pleasure. These souls are so avaricious, that their worldly wants are never satisfied. Whatever pleasures they enjoy, are sensual, so they cannot satisfy their desires. It is a matter of daily experience that the more the desires of a mundane soul are satisfied, the more they are multiplied in every direction. On one side these souls experience the fruits of their past karmas, which shed off after fruition ; on the other side, at the same time, they bind fresh good or evil karmas, on account of their multi farious impure thought-activities. This process has been going on since eternity and will go on as long as the soul does not identify and realise itself and does not adopt proper measures to walk on the path of liberation. It is due to these simultaneous operations of fruition and bondage, that souls transmigrate from one condition of life to the other. It should be noted, that there are 8 main kinds of Karmas :(a) Knowledge-obscuring Karma Jnánávarniya Karma) is
that matter which obscures the knowledge-attribute
of the soul. (6) Conation-obscuring Karma (Darshanávarniya Karma) is
that matter which obscures the conation attribute of
the soul. (c) Feeling Karma (Vedaniya Karma) is that Karma, by the
operation of which, mundane souls come in contact with agreeable or disagreeable objects, which in their turn cause the feelings of pleasure or pain in the Soul, according to their various degrees of attachment and aversion therein.