First Principal of the Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): Hirachand Liladhar Zaveri
Publisher: Jaina Vividh Sahitya Shastramala

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THE JAIN PHILOSOPHY
acting rightly when there is the desire to act rightly, giving, etc. (antaraya-prakriti).
The eight primary qualities of the forces in the living being correspond to eight forces karmas that obscure the eight natural qualities of the soul mentioned before. These eight karmas are
1. Knowledge-obscuring karma (jnanavaraniyakarma);
2. That force (karma) which is in us which obscures undifferentiated cognition (darsanavaraniyakarma);
3. The third is that force in us which results in the feeling of either pleasure or pain (vedaniya-karma); it obscures the bliss-nature;
4. The fourth is that force (karma) in us which obstructs the formation of right belief and right conduct, etc. (mohaniya-karma);
5. The fifth is the force in us which determines the duration of any particular life-period in the embodied state; it prevents the continuity of the state of life (ayush-karma);
6. The sixth is that karma, or force, in us which gives us the various factors of our objective personality, and obscures the nature of the soul which is to be 'without bodily form (nama-karma);