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Subdivision the 5th: Is that karma which obscures the form of knowing called Kevala-jnāna, knowledge which is quite unlimited and disembodied.
Thus in CLASS No. I of the 8 classes of karma there are the above mentioned 5 subdivisions.
With reference to the avadhi-jnāna, it was said in illustration of the (e) kind that a pupil of a teacher had the perception by this means of some man and wife in a distant planet and being amused with what they were doing, the pupil smiled and laughed, and then the sight disappeared. The teacher said that the act of laughing stopped the knowing. In laughing be left off knowing.
The knowing faculty is one aspect of the pure soul. There are other aspects, but knowing is one.
From the low standpoint (see later on under Nigoda) the karma is a higher stage; from the ideal standpoint the karma is an obstruction: the stage of karma is a stage in the line of progress of the soul from the low standpoint.
SUBDIVISIONS OF CLASS 2.
(Darshanāvaraniya karma). Darshana, as already mentioned, means detailless knowledge, you simply know a thing as belonging to a class, without going into its attributes or ways of
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