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3 Deluding karmas, of two kinds:
a deluding right insight, engendering false views
b deluding one's conduct, preventing pure conduct (especially passions, anger, pride, deceit, greed, but also things like fear, disgust, sexual craving (male, female or herm-aphrodite)).
4 Karmas obstructing or restricting one's energy; and also those generating the vibrations of body, mind and speech. There are five kinds of these karmas, which result in:
obstructing charity obstructing gain obstructing enjoyment of consumable things obstructing enjoyment of non-consumable things obstructing exercise of one's capacities or power.
The four nondestructive karmas are:
1 Feeling-producing karmas, of two kinds: pleasant and unpleasant feelings.
2 Name karma; that by which a soul is identified as being a man, animal, heavenly being or hell-being; this karma determines these births and provides the appropriate body, senses, mind, sex and color. To this category we will return in the next chapter, called “Millennia before Darwin.”
3 Life-span karma, which exactly determines the life time of the present incarnation. .
4 Family karma, which determines whether the environmental circumstances in which one is born, such as family and caste, are conducive to having a spiritual life or the opposite.
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