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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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PERSONALITY-DETERMINING KARMA (Nama Karma)
That Karma which decides the personality of soul and which is responsible for its assuming auspicious or inauspicious body, is called personality-deciding Karma. This Karma is like a painter. Just as a painter draws various pictures, Nama Karma also creates good or bad appearance, complexion, physical limbs, fame, blame and good or bad luck. This personality determining Karma has forty-two sub-species. They are fourteen Pindaprakruties, eight Pratyeka Prakruties, ten Sthavar dashakas and ten Trashdashakas. Pindaprakruties have seventy-five varieties. So in all Nama Karma has hundred and three sub-species.
Do not get nervous to learn such a big number of varieties. If you note carefully you will understand them properly. When two, three or more Prakrutis mix up then Pindaprakruti arises. This Pindaprakruti has fourteen varieties: (1) State of existence (Gati) (2) Classes of beings (Jati) (3) Bodies (Sharira) (4) secondary parts of bodies (Upanga) (5) Bindings (Bandhana) (6) Joints (Sanghata) (7) Firmness of joints (Samhanana) (8) Figures (Samsthana) (9) Colours (Varna) (10) Odours (Gandha) (11) Tastes (Rasa) (12) Touches (Sparsha) (13) Anupurvi (14) Vihaya gati.
The word gati generally means to go, but here it is intended to mean, transition from one birth to the other. For illustration, when some soul having completed human existence, departs for celestial existence, then the period from its departure till it enjoys celestial existence is called Devagati, or the state of existence as the celestial being. Other states of existence are also to be understood in the same manner.
These states of existence as four : (I) Hellish (2) Animal (3) Human (4) Celestial.
The scriptures also refer to the fifth state of existence but that state is acquired by souls which have totaly annihilated their Karmas. Souls possessed of Karmas undergo transition in these four states only and reap the rewards of their Karmas. Any Karma which is creative of any of these four states of existence is called gatiman Karma.
Classes of beings are five (1) One sensed (2) Two sensed (3) Three sensed (4) Four sensed (5) Five sensed. Karma which is creative
