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SUTRAS
THE NATURE OF KARMIC BONDS
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SUTRA 4 आद्यो ज्ञानदर्शनावरणवेदनीयमोहनायायुर्नामगोत्रान्तरायाः ॥ ४ ॥ Adyo jnanadarshanavaranavedaniyamohaniyayurnamagotrantarayah (4) Karma affects eight areas of life. It therefore is classified into eight main groups: 1 - karma that obstructs access to the five channels of knowledge
Gjnana-varana) 2 - karma that prevents insight and understanding (darshana
varana) 3 - karma that determines our feeling of life (vedaniya) 4 - karma that causes delusion (mohaniya) 5 - karma that determines the duration and place of future em
bodiment(s) (ayu) 6 - karma that determines form and features of our body (nama) 7 - karma that determines our status in our social environment
(gotra) 8 - karma that causes obstruction in life (antaraya). (4)
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