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Karma-Ils Operation and an Appraisal
But it is not possible to attract the karmic particle much earlier to the time of their redaga and basten fructification
(6) We now come to subsidence of karmic matter (upasama) It is the process by which the rise, premature fruition and other processes are operating the soul gets a glinipse of reality wben molunisa karma is held up Tlien it gets the 1oherent love of trutb The subsidence of Karma will be only temporary because in the end it has to exhaust itself completely, before it reaches the final goal Then there is the combined process of subsidence and destruction (kşayopasana) In this process some portion of Karma is destroyed and some portion is held in abeyance
(7) Nidhalh is a process by which Karma is made incapable of all process except udvarland and spavarlana, increased and dccre,sed realisation Under certain conditions the Karma particles are so intimately glued to the soul that it becoines impossible to all'ect them in any wayexcept by increased or decreased realisation
(8) In the Nihacana even these processes are possible in this case the duration, intensity and strength of Karma are determined by the very time of bondage of Karma ?
Yesovijaya compares these processes with some concepts of Karma in the Patañjalı Yoga The five afflictions of nescience, cgohood, attachment, repulsion and the will to live are the particular states of rises (udaya) of mohoniya Karma Prasupra state of Karma can be compared to abūdha kala and tanu stale is compared to the state of subsidence of Karma Yoga recognised a state of Karma in which some traces may perish before fruition or they may merge into a more powerful Karma They may remain ineffective forever being overpowered by the more powerful Karma This may be compared to the Jaipa view of Samkramana The Jainas have worked out an elaborate and scientific analysis In fabulous mathematical details of the processes of the operation and fruitition of Karam
Having given these astounding elaborations, the Jaina seers have said "alam bistarena'
To seck frecdom from the miseries of this life, to seek deliverance we have to free ourselves from the Karma that has already been accumulated and to sco that no new Karma is added the soul gets bound by the constant flow of Karma This is called Bandha Mental states, like passion, attachment and aversion, which prepare the ground for the binding of the soul by Kaima are called Psychic bondage (bhavabandhana), and the actual binding by the particles of Karma is called drauya-bandha When passions overcome us, the particles get glued to our souls and biod them just as a
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