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With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul. Even a silent assent or endorsements of acts of violence done by someone else far away, have karmic consequences for the soul. When attracted to the consciousness, they are stored in an interactive karmic field called Karmic body, which emanates from the soul. Thus the karma body is an integrated seed consisting of dispositions, predilections and traces left by past desires and is the store house of past deeds and the intelligence that control all functions of mind and body. Karma body is the base of the physical body. The physical body cannot exist without the Karma body. At the time of death the soul is released from the physical body, but not from the Karma body. It along with soul once again proceeds on a journey and again enters a physical body for a new birth.
Mahavira said, “Emancipation results from cessation of the influx of karmic bondage. Hence a noble soul desirous of stopping influx should contemplate stopping the influx of karma."
All spiritual philosophers declare that life is a journey and it is one of the goals of religion to liberate mankind as far as possible from the bondage of egocentric cravings, desires, and fears and to attain it shall be the aim of all human beings. Jain philosophy endorses abandoning of karma or matter and acceptance of soul. Binding of karma is not governed by determinism. The two principal causes of karmic bondage are: remissness and activity (of mind, speech and body). The bondage which occurs due to physical act only is called instantaneous bondage and has only
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