Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
sword in the hand of a devoted soldier or a fanatic rebel.
Finally, dharma and udharma are everywhere in the universe. Beyond the universe they are not: there is only empty space, extending on all sides in its undisturbed, eternal void and eternal unchangeableness.
VI. KARMA The two most important substances are soul and matter, as the two real categories are soul and non-soul, matter being only one of the five classes which make up non-soul. Soul is living, matter is not. The union of the two cannot conduce to freedom, perfection, or peace. The mind desires to pursue a train of thought or action; the body obeys up to a certain point, then refuses to work further. The mind is impotent to goad it on; and is pained at being so dependently mated to a partner of such grossness and limitations. This is a matter of everyday experience.
Matter is without consciousness : soul is conscious. Matter has no choice but to be moulded by the soul. The connexion of soul and matter is material; and it is effected by the soul's activity. The bondage is called kurma, since it is the kurma or deed of the soul. It is material, forming a subtle bond of extremely refined karmic matter which keeps the soul from flying up to its natural abode of full knowledge and everlasting peace.
VII. KINDS OF KARMA (33-5) In this last-inentioned condition the soul, we remember (pp. 1, 20 supre), has four great attributes :