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CLASSIFICATION OF KARMAS.
The details of these jivic energetics which materialise themselves into relatively stable character in the form of karma. The details pudgal clinging round the soul can be work. ed out indefinitely in strict accordance with the Jain philosophical treatises. A critical study of these questions on the formation and transformation of the energetics of the jiva's own making, cannot but convince a reflective student, of the intense love of truth and freedom which prevailed upon the sages who renounced their hearths and homes to enter upon hair-splitting analysis of these phenomena, psychical or physiological, which every human being can possibly experience, so that those who have been groaning under the de-humanising effects of their impudent conduct due to wrong knowledge originating from their perverted visions into metaphysics of things and ideals, might take a note of warning before-hand, and strive to attain to a free and beatific state of being by the virtue of Right-Conduct (samyak chåritra) proceeding from Right-Knowledge (samyak jnana) acquired through Right Vision (samyak
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