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modes corresponding to the karmic materials The karmic materials are called dravya karmas and the consequent psychic changes, bhāva karmas Since the karmas are constituted by material particles, they are ajīva and achetand, non-living and nonthinking Since the bhāva karmas are modifications in the consciousness of the Self, they pertain to piva and chetana, and hence living and thinking This distinction between dravya and bhāva is considered very important and it is applied to the various forms of experiences narrated in this gātha Thus mithyātva, which means erroneous belief, not merely implies the psychic activity which results in erroneous thought but also the physical karmic conditions of a particular type capable of producing erroneous belief in consciousness This two-fold nature is present in other modes also Thus we have dravya ajñāna and bhāva ajñāna, the former referring to the karmic materials of a particular kind capable of interfering with the process of right cognition, and the latter the consequential effect produced in the consciousness This distinction of dravya karma and bhāva karma is to be applied similarly in the other cases also
This two-fold nature of karma should not be confounded with the doctrine of dvikrzyāvāda which has been rejected though there is an apparent similarity between the two karma in the forms of dravya karma and bhāva karma, the material and psychical respectively, may be erroneously assumed to be two different effects of the same causal substance, karma But in reality there is no such common substance called karma capable of producing the two kinds of karmic effect As a matter of fact dravya Karma has matter as its upädāna cause, and bhāva karma has the Self as the upādāna cause Hence the two karmas have two different causes Hence this doctrine of karma is distinct from the dur kriyāvāda
In relation to the duality of karma the author explains next what is related to Jiva and what is related to ajiva
पोग्गलकम्म मिच्छ जोगो अविरदि अण्णाणमज्जीव ।
उवओगो अण्णाण अविरदि मिच्छ च जीवो दु ॥८८॥ Poggalakammam michcham jogo aviradı annanamajjivam Uvavõgo annanam aviradi michcha mcha jivo du (88)
