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valuable gunas of the atma, do not allow them to appear, these karmas are called ghati karmas. The jnanavarniya suppresses the anantajnana guna, the darshanavarniya suppresses the anantadarshana guna, the mohaniya suppresses the anantasukha and the antaraya suppresses the anantavirya guna. As long as these four karmas rule, the gunas, that are in the form of the pure true disposition of the atma, do not appear. Not allowing the gunas to appear is as good as destroying (ghat to destroy) them. Otherwise, the karmas do not have in them the power to totally destruct the gunas of the atma. They merely do not allow them to appear.
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If we considered the other way, the jiva, when it performs the tremendous effort, can destroy all these four karmas in one stroke. All the pursuit by the jiva until now has been for the destruction of these four karmas. The foremost battle was with the mohaniya. With the vanquishing of mohaniya, the other three disappeared. Indeed, a jiva can suppress -- attain kshayopashama of - all four karmas. And with a great effort, can totally destroy them. That is to say, the jiva has the strength in it to destroy these four karmas, however strong they may be. In fact, that is the aim of the jiva.
For aghati karmas, nothing requires to be done. Those miserable karmas do arise when their time arrives, but they do not obstruct the natural stability of the jiva. The one who has vanquished four ghati karmas and attained kevaljnana, does still have four aghati karmas. But they are burnt out and disposable. They cannot do anything. Their existence is only until the ghati karmas exist. It is true that these aghati karmas will get destroyed in the same bhava as the ghati karmas. They cannot stay on. Of course, it is also true that in a kevali parmatma, after attainment of kevaljnana, these four aghati karmas may well not cause any trouble, may well not create any perversion, but they do delay the attainment of moksa. The kevali has to remain with the body
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