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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA
sagaropamas comprise one utsarpım (ascending period of time), the same number of sagaropamas measures one avasarpını (descencing period of time) "?
The following table will give the highest as well as the lowest duration of each chief species of karma :P Karmas Maximum time
Minimum tin. 1. Koowledge-obscuring 30 kotakota
Less than one sazaropamas
muhurta 2 Intuition-obscuring 3 Feeling-producing
12 muhurtas 4 Belief and conduct
Less than one
nuhurta 5 Age-determining
33 sagaropamas 6 Personatily-determining 20 kotakoti
8 muhurtas
sagaropamas 7. Status-determining 8. Power-hiudering . 30, ,
Less than one
muhurta Inlensity
70,
obscuring.
The intensity of the effect of karma depends upon the weakness or strength of the passions (kasayas). In accordance with the four degrees of the passions, four degrees of the strength of karma have been recognised by Jainism. The more sinful a person is, the duration of his bad karma is longer. The stronger the effect of his badness, the weaker that of good species With an increased purity the duration of the bound karma and the intensity of the bad species decrease, wbile the intensity of the good species grows. With the bad species, the fourth degree of the intensity is produced by the most violent passions, i e, anantanubandhi kasazas. The third degree is caused by the apratya-khyanavarana husayas, the second by the pratyakhyanavarana kasajas, and the first by the sangvalna kasajas With regard to the good species, the sanjualanas produce the fourth, the pratzakhyan napatanas the third, the apratyakhyanavaranas the second degree. The intensity of the first degree does not exist with the good species. Quantly
The soul assimilates only that karma matter which is within sts own pradesas, and not that lying outside, just as fire seizes only (that inflamable material which 1. Doctrine of Karman fo Jain Philosophy, p. 20 2 Tattrartha-satra, VIII, 15 21.
