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Nirjarā is of two kinds, viz., (i) sakāma nirjara and (ii) akāma nir jarā.
The shedding of karmas on account of vrata (vows) etc., is called sakāma nirjarā and the annihilation of kārmic matter, ripen itself is
a niriarā.1 In akāma niriarā, kārmic matter separates itself after fruition and giving effects.
Vācbaka Umāswāti gives two types of nirjarā, as (i) abuddhipūrvaka (without the use of intellect) and (2) kusalamula (with intellect). The kārmic experience which the jiva gets unintellectually in the narak gatis etc., is called abuddhipūrvaka nirjarā. The nirjarā or shedding off karmas by pepances, vows etc., is kušalamula.
Swāmi Kārtikeya also describes two types of nirjarā. He says that the fruition power (the power by which the ātman experiences the effects of the karmans) of knowledge obscuring karmans etc., (jñānāvaranīja karma etc.) eight karmans is called their intensity (anubhāga or rasa or vipāka.) After the operation (udaya) of karmas and giving their fruits to ātman the karma pudgalas are separated from ātma-pradeśas. It is called nirjară (shedding off the karmas). It is of two kinds-(1) swa-kāla-prāpta (at the completion of duration of time), and (2) tapaḥ-k rta (by penances etc.).
The first type of nirjarā or the exhaustion of previously accumulated karmas i. e., swa-kālaprāpta nirjarā is always in existence of all the jīvas of four gatis. It is regular, without any interruption. The second type nirjarā, tapah-krta nirjarā can be done only the vowful (vratayukta) jīvas, i. e., the jīvas who have accepted the vows.3
The Candraprbhacarita states—the exbaustion of karmas i. e., nirjarā is of two types, viz., (1) Kāla-krta (by the completion of duration of time) and (2) u pakrama-k rta. After experiencing the effects of karmas, the shedding off the karma- pudgalas is kālajā nirjarā
1. Dharmasarmābhyudayam 21/122-23. 2. Taltvārtha-bhāş ya 917 3. Dvādaśānu preksā-Nirjarānuprekşā, 103-104,
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