Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Sutras 2-3]
Soul
(Aph.) There are eight types of karman: knowledge-obscurant, intuition-obscurant, feeling-determining, deluding, life-span-determining, body-determining, rank-determining and hindrance-producing. (III)
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(Gloss) There are eight fundamental types of karman. The two that obscure knowledge and intuition are respectively known as knowledge-obscurant and intuition-obscurant.
The feeling-determining karman is the cause of pleasures and sufferings.
The deluding (karman) is so called because it deludes the soul by distorting its (faculty of) enlightened faith and volitional attitude and conduct.
Ayuş (life-span-determining karman) is so called because it determines the soul to have a fixed term of life in its worldly career.
The body-determining karman is the cause of the attainment of different forms in the four realms of existence (viz. hellish, animal, human, celestial).
On account of the rank-determining karman one comes to possess high or low status (in society).
Hindrance-producing karman causes obstruction to the exercise of the inherent powers (of making gifts and the like).
४. घाति अघाति च ।
ज्ञानावरण-दर्शनावरण- मोहनीयान्तरायचतुष्कं घाति, शेषचतुष्कं च ararfa I
4. ghati aghāti ca.
jñānāvarṇa-darśanavaraṇa-mohaniyāntarāyacatuşkaṁ ghati, śeșa
catuşkam ca aghāti.
(Aph.) It is twofold, namely destroying and non-destroying. (IV)
(Gloss) The destroying are knowledge-covering, intuition-covering, deluding and obstructing, the remaining four, namely nama (bodymaking), ayuṣya (life-span-determining), gotra (status-determining) and vedaniya (feeling-producing) karman, are non-destroynig.
(Nate) The ghatin karmans are so called because they obstruct the rise of kevalajñāna and kevaladarśana on account of their destroying (ghata) the power of the soul to manifest omniscience. The ghati karmans have, moreover, been designated as bījabandhana (bandhana quã seed) as distinguished from the aghati karmans that have been designated as phalabandhana (bandhana quã effect). In other words the