Book Title: Treatise on Jainism
Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi
Publisher: S J Sanghvi

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________________ -78 A Treatise on Jainism |(2) (1) Cause of bondage of each is different; good thoughts bring merit (Punya), and bad thoughts demerit (Papa). Nature of each is different. Good Karmas are pleasure-bearing feeling-Karma, high family, good body--making, good age karma classes; while bad karms are painbearing feeling-karma, low family, bad body-making, bad age-karma and the four destructive karmas, Knowledge obscuring, Conation obscuring, Delusion and Obstructive Karmas. (3) Fruition of each is different. Merit (Punya) results in Pleasure and Demerit (Papa) in pain. (4) The result in each is different. Merit (Punya) leads on to the Path of Liberation ultimately and Demerit (Papa) to the path of bondage. From the real point of view, however, both merit and demerit lead the soul further into the vortex of transmigration because :(1) Both are caused by impure thought-activity of the soul, (2) Both have got material karmic nature, (3) Fruition of both is harm Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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