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Chapter - 8
Samayasāra
karma is called Satta. The karma does not yield its fruit as soon as it is bound. It remains inactive for some time, depending upon its pre-determined duration, before producing the result. This period of inactivity is called the period of non-production-Abādhakāla. The karma comes into rise, Udaya, in order to deliver its fruit after this period of non-production is over. The rise, then, continues uninterrupted till the end of fruition which is the same as ends of duration. We can here distinguish between efficient rise (vipākodaya) and inefficient rise (pradeśodaya). The former is attended with the effect of the karma on the soul while the latter is fruition without any effect. By using special requisite spiritual energy, the soul is able to reduce the intensity of fruition and when the reduction is so great that the karma loses almost all its potency, the fruition is inefficient or non-affecting.
The soul also possesses the capability for changing and modifying the type, duration, intensity and the qualitative strength of the karma after bondage. Precise rules govern these processes of transformation and modification. For example, transformation of type is possible only between any two sub-types of the same main type with some exceptions. Similarly, the length of duration (sthiti) and intensity of fruition (anubhāga) can be modified by the application of special energy. The process whereby the soul increases the length of duration and the intensity of fruition of a karma is called increased realization (Udvartana). In the same way the process whereby the soul decreases them is decreased realization (Apavartana).
The main function of the fruition of various types of karma is to obscure, obstruct, cripple or distort the innate qualities of the pure soul. For instance predilection for truth (samyagdarśana) is distorted by the deluding (mohanīya) karma and omniscience is obscured by knowledge-obscuring (jñānāvarṇīya) karma. But this does not mean that there is absolute non-existence of all love of truth, knowledge, intuition and abstention from sinful act. If that were the case the soul will lose its soulness. And there would be nothing left to distinguish it from the non-soul. Even as a cloud, however, dense and dark, cannot completely cover the luster of the sun, exactly so the karma cannot cover the whole knowledge of the soul. Rudiments of the fundamentals, qualities of the soul-love of
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