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For explaining the game of karma, Mahavir considers soul surrounded by two bodies:
1. The physical body that is obtained from the mother's womb. It is a companion for one life. On death, it is destroyed by cremation or burial. In human and animal species, its appellation is 'audarika'. It comes out of the mother's womb. In heavenly and hellish options, it is 'Vaikriyaka'.
2. The invisible subtle body is the result of accumulated karmas of previous births. Soul carries it in the four states and eighty-four lakh yonis (genus or birth situations). This is its real prison. This is a karman body, and due to our mind, speech and behaviour, continuously increases or decreases daily. When we are under the influence of Kashaya (anger, attachment, jealousy, pride and so on) then different accessories of Pudgal (numerous atoms in the universe) are drawn towards our soul; coincide with kashayas, and transform into karmas. Since karmas play an exclusive role in drawing them towards the soul, they (different accessories of pudgal) too are called Karma. Language behaves like this. Husband's sister may be playing a limited and partial role in giving pain but she is called nananda (Sanskrit) or nanad (Hindi) (not giver of pleasure). Karma covers the soul just as a layer of dust quickly settles on a sticky surface, or dirt quickly is settled on a wet ball. "Sakashayatvajjivah karmanoyogyan pudgalanadattesahbandhah (Tattvarthasutra 8/2). The drawing of varganas (species) / karmas towards the soul is the asrav (karmic inflow) of the soul; its mingling with the soul like water with milk, is its bondage. The accumulation of the bondage is the Karman body.
Both these bodies are inactive, whereas soul is active. For liberation, soul has to get rid of the karman body. With the passage of Time, karma is matured. This is the result of their emergence. After fruition, they are destroyed. This is like bursting of a ripened boil. It is burst and we feel comfort. That karma which is dissipated by suffering is dissolved. We are liberated. However, that karma which, due to stillness of pacified senses, goes into consciousness can raise its
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