Outlines of Jainism

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

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OUTLINES OF JAINISMI
Āsrava (38-9) The soul is affected by attachment (rāga), a version (dvesha), affection (rati), and infatuation (moha), in the form of the four passions, anger, pride, deception, and greed, helped by the activity of mind, body, and speech. Such a soul is in a state to receive karmic matter into it (37). The technical name given to this activity is yogu; and the attraction of karmic matter thus brought about is called karma-movement (āsrava), the third tattva or principle (38).
The condition of the soul which makes ásrava possible is called bhāvāsrava (subjective āsrava). It is of thirty-two kinds (39). The actual matter, of various colours, etc., etc., attracted by the soul is dravyāsruva (objective āsrava).
The past karmas of the soul affect its present activity. Its present karmus help or modify these, and the joint effect determines the character and tendency of the actual surroundings, etc., of the soul. The soul must pay for what it has acquired. If it has acquired more than it can maintain, it must break under the load of matter, i.e. it must become spiritually bankrupt. The karmas are themselves indifferent; they do not desire to come or to stay away. But, if the soul is in a mood to receive them, they are attracted to it as readily as fine iron filings by a magnet. It is the vicious, relentless vigilance of matter to run to and embrace the soul, in its ignorance and infatuation as much as in its enlightenment and discrimination, that is in Jainism called asrara.
The psychical condition which makes the inflow of