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Out of these 8 kinds of karma, these 8 classes that is, there are four which do and four which do not cover up the real spiritual nature of the soul, those which do cover it are the antarāya, just mentioned, the knowledge obscuring (nänāvaraniya), the darshana obscuring (darshanā varaniya), and the intoxicating or right belief preventing(mohaniya). Those which do not cover up the spiritual nature of the soul, are the 3rd class (vedaniya karma), the 5th class (ayuh karma), the 7th class (gotra karma) and the 6th class (nāma karma). (These last two are out of order).
These karmas are forces, they are living forces, not forces such as gravity, steam, or electricity.
It is important to point out what has already been stated: namely that the combination of the soul with the karma is a very subtle combination which can only be reduced by mental and moral disciplines, hence the body is not in mechanical combination with the soul and cannot be separated and joined again like taking off and putting on a coat. The soul and the body stay in combination until death, and if the body is in bed the soul is there also.
Also the avadhi form of knowledge, by which the soul comes to know distant material things without the action of the sense organs or the mind, operates while the senses are awake, and is in addition to and not replacing the ordinary five senses. All the
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