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Pleasure Pertaining (Shätä Vedaniya) Karma is acquired by being compassionate towards all living beings, not causing pain to anybody, making others happy, helping others, giving others protection and peace, and sharing with and comforting others. Offering comfort, kindness, help, protection, and peace to others can shed Feeling Pertaining (Vedaniya) Karma.
It may be clarified again that this Karma concerns worldly pleasure (or pain) only and not the ultimate infinite happiness and bliss of the soul which comes from complete destruction of all Karma (including this Karma) on attainment of liberation or Moksha. Näm Karma (Body and Physique Determining Karma) This Karma bondage determines destiny (Gati: God, human, hellish beings and tiryancha), birth species (Jäti), the physique or characteristics of the body (Sharira), that the soul will occupy. Like a painter, it creates different types of bodies, their forms and shapes, sounds, smells, and determines the soul's abode ranging from the lowest type of immovable body with one sense to the body of a Tirthankar. As such, it has got numerous subcategories, varying from two to one hundred three, according to different schools and classification and sub classification. Firstly, there are two main divisions:
• Auspicious Physique Karma (Shubha Näm-karma)
• Inauspicious Physique Karma (Ashubha Näm-karma) If the being feels happy and satisfied in a particular physique and its other characteristics, it is considered that it is due to this Karma. This Karma accrues by sincerity of nature, uniformity in professing conduct and by removal of discord. The second is Inauspicious Unhappy Physique Karma (Ashubha Näm-karma) which results in unhappiness and dissatisfaction in the being from his body, physical features etc. and is a result of insincerity of one's disposition, variations in what one says and how one acts, and a discordant nature. There are other numerous classifications and subdivisions of this Karma and they are listed below: Pinda Prakritis
There are fourteen classifications of these; with sixty-five (seventy five
according to some) sub classifications. Pratyeka Prakritis
These are of eight types. Trasa Prakritis
These are of ten types. Sthävar Prakritis
These are of ten types. Thus there are forty-two main classes and ninety-three or one hundred three subclasses of Physique determining Karma. Each main class with subtypes is listed below with its functions. The 14 Pinda Prakritis with 65 sub categories: States of Existence (Gati) Four:
Deva Gati Näm-karma bestows the celestial state of existence. Manushya Gati Näm-karma bestows the human state of existence. Tiryancha Gati Näm-karma bestows the animals, birds, insects and one-sense being state of
existence. • Narak Gati Näm-karma bestows the infernal state of existence. Classes of Beings (Jäti) Five
• Ekendriya Jäti Näm-karma causes birth as a being with one sense. • Dvindriya Jäti Näm-karma causes birth as a being with two senses.
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