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1. The pleasure feeling producing karmic sub-species is defined as that whose realisation causes the feeling or experieneing of physical (sensual) and psychical pleasures by the living beings in the celestial and other specific destinities due to acquisition of various kinds of cherished materials. In other words, the feeling or experiencing of praise-worthiness or auspiciousness is called the pleasure feeling producing karma. 2. The displeasure feeling producing karmic sub-species is defined as that whose realisation causes or results in the feeling or experiencing of in-tolerable simple and various kinds of physical and mental sufferings by the living beings originating due to birth, old age, death, seperation from the desired, connection with the undesired, physical or mental diseases, injuries and bindings (by rope etc.) etc, in different classes of hellish and other destinities. Alternatively, the feeling cr experiencing of non-praiseworthiness or in-auspiciousness are the displeasure feeling producing karma.
Supplementary Notes
The commentary deals with the following points : 1. Two sub-species of feeling-producing karma and their definitions with due illustrations with reference to celestial (and human) and hellish destinities in respect of different types of pleasures and displeasures. 2. In fact, any worldly entity is neither desirable nor undesirable. It is the ignorance and delusion earned by the realisation of knowledge obscuring and deluding karmas that a living being assumes some as desirable or otherwise and feels or experiences pleasure and displeasure in them due to the realisation of feeling-producing karma.
3. The feeling-producing karma is a maturing-in-soul species as its function is effected in the living soul. There are 78 maturing-in-soul subspecies effecting the nature of the living soul. They are as below: (i) Sub-species of feeling producing karma (ii) Sub-species of 4 destructive karmas (iii) Sub-species of status-determining karma (iv) Sub-species of physique-making karma
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