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Karma is also conceived as something non-soul or inert substance, made essentially of pudgals, (Pudgal is a Jain word. Basically, it is a scientific word and its working meaning is matter.), which infiltrates the soul - obscuring its natural, transparent and pure qualities - according to nature of the actions. Pudgal or matter - physical order of existence is devoid of consciousness and is characterised by taste, colour etc. and thus can be apprehended by sense perception. Pudgals are infinitely small, which are eternal, cannot be created and indestructible. In the gross form it is grasped by senses but senses cannot reach its subtle form. Pudgal is a combination of puran (fusion) and galan (fission). The Pudgal embodies energy and prone to motion and evolution and can travel swiftly from one part of the universe to another at infinite speed. Pudgals are thus all things that are continuously changing by the process of supplementation or disintegration, and thus explains the various states of matter and the myriad variety of materials around us. Everything in the universe, except the soul is made out of pudgals. At the rise of bodily genetic Karma particles get into flow towards the soul, assimilated when he is involved in the activity through the operations of the mind, speech and corpus. They are rather arrested or bonded due to passion or emotional phases of the soul interacting with the external world with an ego, attachment or aversion. These bound particles have been called as Karma. This binding of the karma to the consciousness is called bondage.
Thus the karma has two broad meanings: action and bondage of karma clusters with the soul on account of that action. The material karma is called fluent karma,
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