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The first Karma Granth states the number of distinctions of their coverings and Darshanavaran Karma.
The covering which falls on the eye, like a blindfold, is called the covering of that knowledge. Darshanavaran Karma is like a gatekeeper and has four Darshanavaran and five Nidra, totaling nine distinctions.
**Gathaarth:** The covering of these Matigyan, etc., knowledges, like a blindfold on the eye, is called the covering of those knowledges. Darshanavaran Karma is like a gatekeeper and has four Darshanavaran and five Nidra, totaling nine distinctions.
**Special Meaning of Jnanavaran Karma:** Karma that covers knowledge is called Jnanavaran. Just as a blindfold on the eye obstructs vision, similarly, due to the influence of Jnanavaran Karma, the soul is obstructed in knowing substances. But this obstruction is not such that the soul does not have any knowledge at all. Just as even when the sun is obscured by dense clouds, some light of the sun remains, enabling the distinction between day and night, similarly, no matter how thick the covering of Karma may be, the soul always retains some knowledge. Because knowledge is the quality of the soul, and the covering can only obscure the quality of knowledge, it cannot completely destroy it. Even when covered, only an infinite part of knowledge remains eternally uncovered. If knowledge were to be completely destroyed, then:
**1. All living beings would become non-living.**
—Chandrasutra 75