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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
people choose and that is evil which the majority of the people disdain and that is why Karmas are looked upon as good or evil.
NUMBER OF GOOD AND EVIL SPECIES OF KARMAS
The sub-species of Karmas are 158 but only 120 are contracted out of them. 158 species remain in dormant condition and 122 are being unfolded. This would naturally lead one to question as to how 122 species would be unfolded when 120 species are contracted. This doubt is cleared thus: From 120 species of Karmas contracted only one variety of "False-belief" Karma is contracted. Thereafter, the same results in three varieties-Obscuring right belief, obscuring mixed belief, and obscuring false belief. This leads to 122 species being unfolded.
Let us clarify also how 120 species of Karmas are responsible for binding the Soul. The sub-Species of knowledge-obscuring Karmas are five, those of intuition-obscuring are nine and those of feeling-producing are two. All these species amounting to sixteen in number create bondage of the Soul. In twenty eight sub-species of Karmas causing delusion, species deluding right belief and mixed belief are not included-Thus they are twenty six. Four sub-species of life-determining Karmas also bind the Soul. Thus binding varieties of Karma amount to forty six in number.
Personality-determining Karmas have 103 sub-species; but only 67 species bind the soul. Colour, odour, taste and touch possess in all, twenty sub-species but here we have considered only one variety of colour, odour, taste and touch. This excludes sixteen varieties. Moreover fifteen varieties causing the bondage and five varieties of Samghata are also not included. Thus in all, thirty six varieties when subtracted amount to sixty-seven. Now forty six added to sixty-seven make one hundred and thirteen. Now two varieties of family-determining-Karmas and five sub-species of power-obscuring-Karma amount to 120.
In considering good or evil varieties one-twenty four varieties are taken into account. The reason is, each variety of colour, odour, taste and touch bears two divisions from the point of view of good or evil Karmas. Thus four varieties are added to them making the total of one-twenty four from the point of view of good or evil Karmas.
