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SAMAYASĀRA
Karmas are of eight different kinds, such as jñānavaraniya, darśanāvaranīya, etc. These are also mainly material in nature. Hence these karmas cannot be spoken of as belonging to the soul. Non-karma refers to the various physical molecules that build up the three types of grosser bodies of fully developed biological species. Since these body-building molecules are material they have nothing to do with jīva or Soul.
Varga refers to the bundle of potencies incorporated in a single indivisible atom which forms the basis of Karmic matter.
Vargaņa refers to the type of Karmic molecules constituted by a number of vargas or Karmic atoms.
Spardhaka refers to aggregates of vargaņas or Karmic molecules
All these three refer to the development of Karmic matter from the subtle type to the grosser type. These types of Karmic matter cannot be predicated of jīva.
Adyātmasthāna. On account of the ignorance of its true nature, the ego may identify itself with the various objects and persons of the external world. This false feeling of one-ness with external things has nothing to do with the Pure Self since the confusion is due to the interference of the physical objects. Similarly anubhāgasthānas, the various types of pleasure-pain consciousness resulting from the manifestation of corresponding Karmas, cannot be spoken of as belonging to the soul.
Yogasthānas, the different grades of activity relating to thought, speech, and body which form the condition for attracting Karmic molecules towards the soul are also main ly physical in nature and hence cannot be spoken of as of the soul. Similarly bandhasthāna, various kinds of Karmic bondage and udayasthāna, fruit-yielding manifestation of Karmas are also not of the soul.
Marganasthāna, an inquiry into the nature of jīva, is based upon the method of classification according to various principles which are fourteen in number, such as gati, indriya, etc. These different principles of classification are distinctly material, since they pertain to the nature of the organic bodies, and hence they are not of the soul.
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