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A SOURCÉ-BOOK IN JAINA PHILOSOPHY Ācārya Kundakunda says that jīva and the karmic particles are mixed together and at appropriate occasions they get separated. But as long as they are mixed together, the karma continues to give its effects either auspicious or inauspicious way. We get pleasure or pain accordingly.1
The Buddha had his foot pricked by a thorn once. He said to his disciples that “in my ninety one previous life, a man was murdered by my sharp weapon therefore, the thorn has pricked me".2
Similarly, Bhagavāna Mahāvila had to suffer great physical and mental tortures during his period of sadhana. All this must have been due to the effect of karma that he bad acquired in the previous lives.
TSVARA AND KARMAVADA The Jainas maintain that every individual jīvu experiences the fruits of karma according to bis desserts. He does not accept Nyāya) conception of Ī svara as the dispenser of karma. Because Tswara has no place in the system of karma. Karma is associated with jiva. It envelops the jīva and produces the effect. The karmic effect is determined by the kārmic matter, the extensity of karma, the time, the bhāvakarma and other factors like the birth, the sihiti, (duration) 8 etc. All these determine the total kārmic dispositions and shape the personality of the individual. The food ibat we take may be sweet or bitter, palatable or not, the food itself has not these characteristics, but these experiences come because of its association with the cogniser and the psychic effects and the individual consciousness. The individual self experiences these different types of food according to the variation in physical and psychic condition.
1 Pañcāstikāya 67 2 Şaņdarśana samuccaya ţikā 3 See; Bhagavāna Mahāvīra : Ek anuśīlan by the author. 4 Uttarādhyayana 20, 37. 5 (a) Nyāya darśana, sūtia 4, 1.
(b) Gautamasülla, adbyāya, 4, ā, 1, sūtra 21. 6 Bhagavati 7, 10. 7 Pañcasangraha. 8 Prajñāpana, p. 23.
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