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COMPENDIUM OF JAINISM
They are inclined to give something in charity but somehow, there is some feeling or thought which prevents them from giving effect to charitable decision. The mind becomes indecisive and hesitation starts resulting in cancellation of the decision to give in charity. The second prevents them from enjoying profits or gains made by him. The third and the fourth Karmas hinder them from enjoying thing or properties, consumable or non-consumable, or movable or immovable, even though they possess them and desire to use and enjoy them. There are many instances in life where men accumulate and are deprived of their use or enjoyment by some unforeseen cause. It is the result of these Karmas. The fifth one prevents them from making efforts in the direction of achieving something good and benefical to the soul. The hindrance may be either with reference to the spiritual activities or worldly success.
Mohaniya
Creation of obstacles in the wages of others is the cause of Antarāya Karma or obstructive Karmas. 8 Causing obstructions to others in the performance of deeds of charity, generosity, conferring of public benefit, helping those in difficulties, undertaking works of public utility are the causes for the influx of obstructive Karmas. From the point of fruition of this kind of Karma, any activity obstructive of a good act or speech is sufficient.
The fourth destructive Karma is Mahaniya Karma. It obscures the power of discrimination and creates an infatuation or delusion in the individual in his approach to various matters in life. These Karmas are of twenty-eight kinds.9 These are: the three sub-types of faith-deluding Karmas, the two types of conduct-deluding Karmas which cause (and which are caused by) passions and quasi-passions, the sub-types of passions and the quasi-passions, being sixteen and nine, respectively. 10 The operation of this Karma makes the individual blind to the true nature of self. His knowledge, faith and conduct would either be false, or pervertd. There are two main sub-divisions in the
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