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The twenty-eight categories of *karma* bind the soul: [1] *Samavāyāṅgasūtra* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's physical form), [2] *Samacaturasrasanstḥānanama* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's shape), [3] *Vaikriyakaśarīrāṅgopāṅganāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's organs and limbs), [4] *Varṇanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's color), [5] *Gandhanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's smell), [6] *Rasānāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's taste), [7] *Sparśanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's touch), [8] *Devānupūrvīnāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's previous births as a deity), [9] *Agurulaghunāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's weight), [10] *Upghātanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's internal injuries), [11] *Parāghātanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's external injuries), [12] *Ucchvāsanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's breathing), [13] *Praśasta Vihāyogatināma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's good rebirth), [14] *Trasanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's trembling), [15] *Bādarānāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's foolishness), [16] *Paryāptanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's sufficiency), [17] *Pratiyekaśarīranāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's individual body), [18] *Sthita-Asthiranāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's stability or instability), [19] *Śubha-Aśubhanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's auspiciousness or inauspiciousness), [20] *Ādeya-Anādeyanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's ability to receive or not receive), [21] *Subhaganāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's beauty), [22] *Susvaranāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's good voice), [23] *Yaśaskīrtināma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's fame), and [24] *Nirmāṇanāma* (the name of the category of *karma* that determines the soul's creation).
188 - Similarly, the soul bound to hell also binds the twenty-eight categories of *karma*, but instead of binding the auspicious categories, it binds the inauspicious categories. For example, it binds the categories of *karma* that determine the soul's inauspicious rebirth, ugly form, instability, misfortune, inauspiciousness, bad voice, inability to receive, infamy, and creation. This is the only difference.
187 - In the Ratnaprabhā earth, the condition of many hell-bound beings is described as twenty-eight *palyopamas* (comparisons). In the seventh earth below, the condition of many hell-bound beings is described as twenty-eight *sāgaropamas* (comparisons). The condition of many Asura-Kumaras is described as twenty-eight *palyopamas* (comparisons). In the Saudharma and Iśāna kalpas, the condition of many deities is described as twenty-eight *palyopamas* (comparisons).
190 - The condition of the deities who reside in the lower and upper *graiveyaka* vimānas is described as twenty-eight *sāgaropamas* (comparisons). The condition of the deities who are born in the middle and upper *graiveyaka* vimānas is described as twenty-eight *sāgaropamas* (comparisons). These deities breathe, eat, and sleep every twenty-eight half-months (fourteen months). They experience the desire for food every twenty-eight thousand years.
Many *bhavya-siddhika* souls will become *siddhas*, *buddhas*, liberated from *karma*, attain *parinirvāṇa*, and end all suffering after experiencing twenty-eight births.
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