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[The Lord's Philosophy
fair knowledge and character-building. Due to this the soul is misled. This misleading is the cause of the soul's roaming the cycle of the world.
(V) Ayu Karma.--The fetters on the feet of a prisoner restrict his free movement and fix him at one place. In the same way this Ayu Karma imprisons the soul in this body prison.
(VI) Nama Karma.--Just as a painter creates different sorts of pictures, in the same way this Karma creates various bodies and thus destroys the formlessness of the
Boul.
(VII) Gotra Karma.--This makes a soul take brith in different better families of higher regions and in various in. ferior, faniilies of lower regions.
(VIII) Antraya Karma.--This hinders the attainment of the power of being charitable, of joining, of experiencing luxury, enjoyment and strength. Even when the soul gets other means, this Karma comes in the way of the soul to get these qualities.
All these eight kinds of Karmas are closely connected with the soul from times beginningless. Here a question may be raised. The space holds all things but these are not inseparably bound with it, because the space is “ Arupa ", with no shape. Similarly the soul is formless, so how can the Karmas that have form be closely bound with the formless soul ? How can they influence it."
This can be answered satisfactorily in many ways. Firstly though the soul is formless as regards shape, it has developed form due to these Karmas. We can not point out exactly when the soul came in contact with the Karmas so
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