INTRODUCTION
The Gomma²asåra Karma
Kå¿ðastarts with
the following verse introducing the nature or configuration of karma:
payaði sîla sahåo jîva½gå¿a´ a¿åi
sa´ba´dho/
ka¿ayovale mala´ vå tå¿itthatta´
saya´siddha´// GKK-I/2//
Just as fire moves up, wind moves
horizontatally and water moves down, similarly whatsoever happens
absolutely is called the nature or
celebate or nature. The purpose here is with the nature of the bios and
the
karma. The nature of the bios is to
transform in form of love, etc., and the nature of the Karma is to
generate or
create love, etc. However, without the
fault of interdependence, the relation between the bios and Karma has
been said to be ab aeterno. Moreover the
bios is non-material and the Karma is material, still their relation
exists
as such, a the mineral god is found as a
combination of pure gold and stone. Thus the existence of such a
relation is self evident.
The bios , through its yogic action at
the rise of the bodily genetic coding Karma, assimilates eight types of
Karmas, known as knowledge screening,
etc., at every instant, in all its points. This amount has been shown
to
be infinitesimal part of the set of the
accomplished beings and infinite times the set of the
non-accomplishable
bios, and called as an
instant-effective-bond (samaya prabaddha). This amount is a variable
lying between the
minimal and the maximal. Similarly there
are the measureable amounts of the existent, rising and decaying
Karmas according to various
circumstances.
In general qualitatively Karma is one
alone. According to the classification based on the fluent(dravya) and
phase
(bhåva), Karma is of two types. The
fluent Karma is a mass of matter and the energy lying in it to give
fruition is
called the phase Karma. Otherwise also
due to formality of cause and effect, the ignorance, etc., generated
due
to energy of fruition are also called
the phase Karmas. The basic eight types of Karmas are further subdided
into
48 types and coulbe again further
subdivided into innumerate universes types. Some of them are blocking
and
others are non-blocking. In Samayasåra
one may find a similar detail of the relation as
jîva pari¿åma hedu´ kammatta´ puggalå
pari¿amanti´/
puggala kamma ¿imitta´ taheva jîvo vi
pari¿amaî//SS-403//
¿avi kuvvai kamma´gu¿e jîvo kamma´taheva
jîva gu¿e/
a¿¿o¿¿a ¿imitte¿a du pari¿ama´ jå¿a
do¿ha´pi//SS-404//
Due to the stimulus phase of a bios, the
matter gets transformed into Karma. The bios also gets transformed
does not transform the attributes(gu¿as)
of the Karmas, nor does the Karmas transform the attributes of the
bios. The relation of the stimulus and
the responder exists in the bonding and the bonder phase. But the
unbounded matter and the bios have no
relation of the stimulus and the responder. Thus both the fluents, in
the
state of the stimulus and the
responderhave the similar state. Wheresoever both these fluents have
not equal
state, there is said to be
characteristic of a neutral external stimulus (medium) as in case of
the aether fluent.
Such a relation is called the stimulus
and the field(upådåna) relation.
This has again been emphasized in the
Samasåra
Ja´ ku¿ai bhåvamådå kattå so hodi tassa
bnåvassa/
Kammatta´ pari¿amade tamhi saya´ puggala´
davva´//SS-417//
Whatsoever the phase(bhåva), the bios
acts upon, it becomes the actor of that phase, and on becoming an
actor, the matter-fluent gets
transformed automatically. There are many types of variforms(varga¿ås),
well
described are of the twenty-three types
out of which is the Karmå¿a varga¿å which is capable of being
transformed into the state of akarma as
a fluent(dravya). “davvavagga¿å duvihå—kammavagga¿å--¿o
kammavagga¿å”//DVL, vol. 14,
5/6/71/52/5//. The Karma fluent pervades the whole universe in the form
of a fine
dust. Those Karma matter particles get
into flow towards the bios , assimilated when he is involved in the
yogic
activity through the operations of the
mind, speech and corpus. They are rather arrested or bonded due to
emotional (mohic or ka¼åyika phases of
the bios These bound particles have been called as various Karmas,
creating deformation in the very
dispositional activities and behaviour of the soul keeping him bond or
dependence. The charmed bios feels
pleasure or pain while absorbed in tthem. Thence arose the search for
getting independence from transmigration
through getting rid of a single foreign agency, the Karma, which was
then made a mathematical object, rather
a complete system in itself. The modern set up of the system theory is
a development of the twentieth century.
Thus the purpose of diverting the
attention from very many things and images as friendly or otherwise,
led them
to have a unified theory which could
explain every even of the life of a bios as an individual or in a group
of
species, search began to probe into the
mathematical manoeuvre of separating the two systems which had non-
linear interactions, actions and
reactions between the bios and the Karma. They turned their attention
towards a
scientific view of cause and effect ,
leaving the teleological speculationfar behind.
It was thus observed that the
configurations and the particles bonds were due to yogic activity or
volitions and
the life-time as well as energy
intensity bonds were due to emotions or mohic activity. The
configurations of
Karma worked as hubs of a Karmic wheel
round which the number of mass particles, their life-time and intensity
of energy bonds corresponded in varying
measures. Thus the school needed a measuring process for their
values between their maxima and minima.
They might have taken resource to the follwing process
1. Formation of constants, variables,
parameters and correspondence relations between them.
2. Formation of measuring units for
quantitative measures of fluents, phases, yoga, emotion, time, space.
3. Formation of maxima and minima of
various sets(rå¹is) where the units worked as members.
4. Formation of correspondence relations
between phases of the bios and Karmas in individual as well
as collective cases.
5. Formation of conditions, constraints
and restraints, serving as limitations in the natural world of
events in absolute flat space and
absolute time, for corresondence relations between actions, reactions
and
interactions of the bios and Karmas.
Now we pass on to see that the Jaina
school tried to systemize the actions, etc., or the henomenological
events
expected to happen in the life of a bios
through their measure system which included the proper infinities,
comparability of the sets which were
finite or transfinite through divergent sequences locating them in
terms and
their stations.as follows
1. Present set of state(sattva) or
states corresponding to its heredity consideration. This might have
evolved the idea of a remnant structural
system, constantly changing and tending to to have inputs through
yogic and mohic activities every instant
which was regarded as indivisible as a space point or an ultimate
particle of matter (paramå¿u). This
system was alsopouring out the decayed cells (ni¼ekas) in course of
time
or through certain yogic or mohic
retarded or acclerated activities. This can be seen very well by their
manipulation through a life-time
stucture matrix of a very simple type as shown in the figure.
2. Defining the constituents of the
present state, the structure of the state, transformation in the state
due
to input of yogic and mohic activities
and output of activities t various rates, through constants, variables
and
parameters of Karma fluent as well as
phases. These gave equations of motion of the system or asystems.
3. Overall effects of changing the
growth or decay in the rate of Karmas due to their rise, decay,
destruction, etc., on the bios
activities or on faculty of its negentropic structures and functions,
even beyond
the range of the Karmas.
4. Observational data collected in
states of retarded yoga and emotions and setting up correspondence
relations
as equation of motion of the unified
system for observing the change in the state as well as in the output.
This
also included the study of yogic and
mohic controllability of the unified system.
5. The ultimate results guessed as
approximate states of the bios on completely detaching it from the
Karma system. This , according to their
finding, meant the paragon state of a bios attained after annihilating
the total Karma system for setting the
soul wholly free from all foreign agencies, and fully endowed with the
natural eternal existence with endless
knowledge, vision, power and bliss.
