Living Systems in Jainism: A Scientific Study: 03.07 ►Karma Proportions

The following are the proportions into which the incoming varganas are divided at any instant and also the proportions of the total karmas present at any stage of the soul. Feeling-producing karma has the highest proportion among the karmas. The next highest is deluding karma. Next in order are intelligence-obscuring, awareness-obscuring and vitality-obscuring karma, which have about equal proportions. Form-producing karma and status-determining karma have the same proportions and come next. The smallest proportion of karma is age-determining karma. Figure 1 gives a pictorial representation of karma proportions to show the approximate scale. Shown shaded in the background is bhava karma; there is an exact fit between dravya karma and bhava karma. Note that although all karmas actually extend throughout the body, they are shown here in boxes for the purpose of comparison.