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CLASSIFICATION OF KARMAS. the gati karma of the jiva's own making during the period of its oudariku existence. But how would it go ? the karman-body clothing in which the Fiva at death passes out of the gross mortal coil, has neither the organs of sense, nor of action which only enable the fiva in the ouddrika body to move along certain lines in a certain direction in space in order to reach a particular destination it has in view. But the Jain philosophers hold as a solution to this doubt that as both the Gati and the Yoni whence the Fiva will have to take birth, become fixed and determined by the actioncurrents set up by the fiva itself, so the direction of the fiva's movements after death to reach its future destination, is also determined by its setting up of certain actioncurrents, called ånupurvi karma, which determine and control the direction of the jiva's movenients in space by which it is enabled to directly reach its destination : but as there are only four gatis or destinations for a Sansari jiva to reach after it has shuffled off its oudàrika body, this ånupurvi karma takes four different forms, -
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