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which are bad or disabling ( called Ghatin ) leading to a degraded form of transinigration, the other four called Aghatins i. e. ' not injurious or favourable or of use to enable one to know the truth.' 'The eight Karinans are as follows, the first four being Ghátins, and the next four Aghatins.
1. “Jnanavaraniya, that which acts as an impediment to the knowledge of the truth.
2. Darsanavaraniya that which acts as an impediment to the belief in the efficacy of the Jain dispensation.
3. Mohaniya, that which produces bewilderment and disability to choose between the various dispensations promulgated by different teachers.
4. Antarya, that which prevents one's entrauce into the path that leads to cternal bliss,
5. Vedauiya i. e. the belief that there is something which one has to know.
6. Namika i. e. the belief that I ani a person bearing such and such a name. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com