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212 :: Structure and Functions of Soul in Jainism
the destructive karmas is, thus, avoided by way of their endurance and subsidence, and not by way of destruction after which the pure function of the soul's attributes must follow. The non-operative and subsidential states of the totally destructive karmas prepare the ground upon which the partially destructive karmas work and generate the destructive-subsidential manifestations. The non-operation or the subsidence of karmas is as good as their non-existence, and it must have brought about the pure manifestations but for the operation of partially destructive karmas. Hence this type of manifestations would mean the distortion and limitation of the soul's powers by the partially destructive karmas. It is a little strange to note that neither destruction nor subsideence (the terms used in the nomenclature) suggest the other aspect of the mixed manifestations, i.e., their determination by the partially destructive karmas. We know that sensuous knowledge, which is enumerated as a mixed manifestation, presupposes the operation of the perfect knowledge-obscuring karma which is totally destructive. So it follows that the mixed manifestations appear only when the total and partial obscurations have been taken in respect of different faculties. Akalanka takes a durable mode of an attribute as an attribute (guna), and thus propounds the truth of total disappearance of an attribute.
The Audayika (Operative) Manifestations
Then we come to the operative type of the soul's manifestation. It is defined as the manifestation determined by the operation of the karmas.”] “The fruition of the karmas when helped by the auxiliary causes is the operation." This type of manifestations is solely determined by the operation of karmas, and it does not presuppose the existence of nonoperation of any type of karmas like the mixed manifestations.
1. Rājamalla: Pañcādhyāyi, II, verse 967 2. Devanandin: Sarvārthasiddhi, p. 82
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