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KARMA
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1. Mati-jñānāvaraṇīya karma - It causes the obscuration of
the knowledge acquired through the media of senses
and mind. 2. Sruta-jñānāvaraniya karma - It produces the obscuration
of the knowledge acquired by reading or hearing
scriptures or by the words of an authority. 3. Avadhi-jñānāvaraṇīya karma - It hinders direct knowledge
of material objects. 4: Manahparyāya-jñānāvaranīya karma - It obscures direct
knowledge of the thoughts of others. 5. Kevala-jñānāvaraṇīya karma - It hinders the faculty of
omniscience inherent in soul by natural disposition. Intuition-obscuring Karma :
This kind of karma is called darśanāvaraṇīya karma. In Jaina philosophy, the word 'darśana' is used to signify two meanings. Firstly, it means belief, opinion or faith. Secondly, it has also the meaning of the awareness of an object or the cognition of a thing in its general form. It is the first stage of knowledge which is known as indistinct knowledge. In darśanāvaraniya karma, the word 'darśana' is meant to signify the second meaning. It can be translated as intuition, indeterminate perception, indistinct knowledge, undifferentiated cognition or perception in the sense of general cognition. That karma which obscures the faculty of intuition is called intuitionobscuring karma. It is of nine sub-species according to the four species of intuition and five kinds of sleep:' 1. Cakşurdarśanāvaraṇīya karma - It obscures the intuition conditional upon the eye. 2. Acakşurdarśanāvaranīya karma - This species obstructs the intuition conditional upon the four senses (other than the eye) and mind. 3. Avadhi-darśanāvaraṇīya karma - It hinders the faculty of direct intuition of material things. 1. Karma-grantha, IV. 10-12.
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