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Jaina Eschatology :: 209
said to be in the state of nidhatti; while those that admit of no change but follow their own course are said to be in a state termed as the nikācita. All the ten states do not occur necessarily in the life of a karma. Some states become possible only by negating others. The essential states through which a karma must pass are the bondage, the endurance and the realization after which it must get detached from the soul.
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The Five Types of Conscious Manifestations
The union of the jiva with the karmas in their various states gives rise to the theory of the five types of conscious manifestations of the jīva. Karmas in their different states of existence give birth to various forms of thought and activity. These manifestations are the aupaśamika (subsidential), the kṣāyika (destructive), the kşāyopaśamika (destructivesubsidential), the audayika (operative) and the pāraņāmika (natural) ones. The ten states of the karmas give rise to only three types of conscious manifestations, the destructive being determined by the absence of the karmas and the natual one, by the jīva itself.
The Aupaśamika (Subsidential) and Kṣāyika (Destructive) Manifestations
The state of endurance (sattā) of the karmas does not affect the soul at all, because herein the karmas do not attain maturity. As we have seen that the states of endurance and subsidence are not the same, the effect of the subsidential state is there in the soul. Actually speaking the power of the soul prevents the karmas from becoming operative; and it will have meaning only when the karmas are supposed to be
1. Nemicandra: Gommațasāra (Karmakānda), verse 440 2. Umāsvāti: Tattvārthasūtra, 2.1
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