Sambodhi 1977 Vol 06

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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The convergence of the...Jainism
(A) Nature:
Different properties of different systems originate from different elementary excitations. Thus phonons, rotons and vortices are meat for different properties of superfluid helium at different temperatares. Similarly karmas have the following species. (Number in front of each specie indicates its subspecies).
(i) Knowledge obscuring (ii) Intuition obscuring (iii) Feeling producing (iv) Age determining
(4)
(v) Belief and conduct producing (28)
(103)
(vi) Body determining (vii) Staus determining (viii) Power hindering
(5)
(2)
(5)
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Each one of these is held responsible for different types of disorder present in the empirical self and impede the manifestation of truc nature of consciousness. Jainas claim that all properties of all living beings can be explained in terms of these 158 karmas. It may be easily noted that some kind of energy gap like thing (in which space?) exists which may prevent us to realize actual nature of consciousness.
(B) Number:
The relative number of various elementary excitations present in different systems at a temperature is diffrent and this number vary with temperature. In a similar way the number of karmas changes from one animate to another and their relative quantities are given by the following rule.
The age determing species receive the smallest part, a greater portion goes to the body determining and status determining ones, both of which obtain an equal portion. More than that goes to the knowledge obscuring, intuition obscuring and power hindering species each of which gets an equal portion. Still a larger part than this goes to the belief and conduct obscuring species and the greatest of all goes to the feeling producing species.
This difference in the number will then determine different properties of different animates..
(C) LifeTime :
The interaction among various excitations causes scattering among thern. Thus in a particular state an excitation stays only for some definite time. Similarly the lifetime of the incoming karmas depends upont heir interaction