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(sāncit karma), remains exhausting the Karma that has already begun its operation in the present life (the prārabdha karma) and due to complete psychological detachment to the objects of experience it no more accumulates new Karma, and hence, the possibilities of his future birth are nullified. One revolves and continues to revolve on the wheel of birth and death in the worldly life as long as one's Karma does not cease to operate. The desert is the cause of rebirth.' When the original stock of the accumulated Karma is exhausted and when no new Karma is accumulated by practising detachment and aversion towards the objects of experience, one need not continue his worldly existence for ever. His chances of assuming future birth get nullified and he has to lead his present life in order to exhaust the Karma whose fruition is already begun. He has to wait for its exhaustion in its normal course. Thus, liberation comes in its final form when the past, present and future Karma is exhausted for ever, by practising the Yoga also.
Frequently, the state of liberation is depicted to be one of positive, immense, pure, unadulterated and unending happiness. But the Nyāya Vais'esika systems do not support this view. They describe liberation, on the contrary, negatively as a state of utter painlessness. Max Müller writes —"Lastly, the Apavarga (bliss) of the Nyāya and Vais'eșika systems seems entirely negative, and produced simply by the
1 Vidyabhushana S.C. : The Nyāya Sūtras of Gotama, Sutra 3.2.64, p. 103.
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