Fundamentals Of Jainism

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Bharti

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FUNDAMENTALS OF JAINISM
(3) vedaniya, i.e., the class of prakritis (energies) which determine and regulate the experiencing of pleasure and pain;
(4) mohaniya, that is to say, the forces which produce delusion;
(5) ayuḥ, or the prakritis which determine the duration of the association of the soul with the body of gross matter;
(6) näma, or the forces which organise the body and its Jimbs;
(7) gôtra, or the energies which determine the family, surroundings, position and the like, of individuals; and
(8) antaraya, or the group of forces which interfere with our doing what we should like to do.
As flesh, blood, muscles, bones, marrow and the like are formed from the same food, so are the different kinds of karmic energies engendered from the particles of matter absorbed by the soul through asrava.
Of these eight kinds of karmas, the first, second, fourth and eighth are called ghatia (lit. that which destroys), because they obstruct the natural qualities of spirit, and the remaining four aghatia (a=not tghatia) because of their not interfering with those attributes. The formers are, moreover, regarded as inimical to the jiva, because they are the most difficult to be destroyed, while the latter can be burnt up speedily.
We now proceed to describe the number and nature of energies comprised in each of these eight groups of Karmas.
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1. The jñanavarniya class comprises five energies, namely; (i) that which obscures knowledge derived through the
senses (mati jnana); (ii) that which interferes with knowledge based on the
interpretation of signs (śruta jnana); (iii) that which obstructs clairvoyance (uvadhi jħâna); (iv) that which debars one from telepathic knowledge (manah
prayaya jnana); and