Dr. Samani Mangal Pragya
In Prajñāpanā, there is a mention of different causes of determining the rise of karmas, in the context of state of life (gati), life span (sthiti), state of birth (bhava), matter (pudgala), transformation in matter (pudgala pariṇāma)[1]
- Rising of Karma due to 'Realm of mundane existence': Beings born in the hell, rigorously suffer the fruition of inauspicious karmas. If that particular being had been born in any realm of existence, in the same period of time then he would not have suffered such karma so rigorously, as he experiences in the hell. Hence, his existence in the hell causes fruition of rigorous pain giving karmas.
- Rising of Karma due to Duration: In the condition of maximum duration of deluding karmas, the view-deluding karma comes to rise and fruition with high intensity. This is the fruition due to duration.
- Rising of Karma due to Class of Birth: The rise of intuition obscuring karma is found in all the beings of all the four realms of existence. Intuition covering karma causes sleep but only humans and animals (sub-human beings) sleep, celestial and hellish beings do not. This is so, because of the limit of fruition caused by the state of life.
Due to the above mentioned three supportive causes, many of the karmas come to rise and fruition, automatically.
- Rising of Karma due to Matter: A stone is hurled and a person gets hurt. This situation becomes a cause for the fruition of pain-giving karma and the person feels pain. This is based on rise of pain giving karma by others.
Similarly, if a person uses bad words or abusive language towards another person, the rise of anger producing karmas takes place in the listener, due to the external circumstances.
- Rising of Karma due to the Transformation of Matter (pudgala): Sometimes, food consumed causes indigestion that ultimately causes a disease. This is the result of transformation of matter based on rise of pain-giving (asātā vedanīya) karma.
- Drinking liquor causes delusion. This causes the rise of knowledge obscuring karmas. This fruition is due to the transformation of material objects.[2]
