Outlines of Jainism

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

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
Papa is the sinful kind of karmas. It includes acts done with negligence, engrossinent in sense-objects, causing pain to others, talking evil of others, etc. This results in the movement (asrava) of sinful karmas and the corresponding bondage (55-7). The matter of punya and papa is the same. It is only the desirable or undesirable character of the thought-activity that gives rise to the distinction (58). The distinction has so much reference to asrava and bandha (inflow of karmas and bondage thereby) that sometimes the padarthas are not treated as a separate topic at all, but only as a subsidiary part of those two tattvas (principles). So it is said: Both are the means of bondage; therefore they are one, and are certainly by themselves the cause of bondage" (58).
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X. BODIES, ETC.
The connexion of jiva and ajiva, linked by karmic matter, leads to two results: (1) it causes the soul to be clothed with matter; (2) it imposes upon the soul the duty of getting rid of this matter.
Under (1) three topics have to be considered: (a) the number of bodies according to the nature of their matter; (b) the kinds of bodies according to their form or class; (c) the colours of this bodily matter and its reflection in the soul.
Thus we must deal with: (a) bodies; (b) conditions of existence; (c) lesyās, or tints; (d) guna-sthānas, or stages in the evolution of the soul.
XI. THE FIVE BODIES (59-60)
The non-soul invades the soul (āsruva) and invests it with the finest karmic matter (bandha). This is the