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Jīva in bondage get the encrustation of karma more and more dhe to mohaniya karma.20 Mohanīya karma is a karma which hinders the right belief. In Bhagavati Sūtra, we observe that jīva suffers and misery is involved to suffer more misery, but the jīva free from attachment aversion and misery does not experience misery. The sorrows afflict those jīvas which suffer from sorrow, through passion and the increase of misery. The souls that are free from misery do not attract sorrow.21 Technology of karma
Karma in the soul can be contemplated from four points of view:22 1. According to the manner of their effect (praksti), 2. According to the duration of their effect (Sthiti), 3. According to the intensity of their effect (rasa), and 4. According to their quantity, i.e. according to the number of their
pradeśas.
Nature (manner) of karma23 (prakrti): There are 8 fundamental (mulprakrti) karmas.
Jñānāvāraņiya - karma, the karma which obscures knowledge. 2. Darśanāvaraņiya- karma, the karma which obscures the
cognition or intuition. Vedaniya - karma, the karma which produces the feeling of joy
and grief 4. Mohaniya - karma, the karma which obstructs belief and
conduct. Āyus-karma, the karma which determines the duration of life Nāma- karma, the karma which gives the various favours of
individuality. 7. Gotra-karma, the karma which destines family surrounding i 8. Antarāya- karma, the karma which hinders the jīva in his
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