Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM
(5) A body which is made up of all the energies now being classified under eight kinds (karmas). This is changing every moment. And this and the "fire" body (taijasa) just above mentioned are the two which stay with the soul at death and only leave it at its final liberation.
Of these five we all have the physical, the "fire" body, and the "karmana" body (the fifth, just mentioned). We may or we may not have the subtle body; while only the very far advanced can have the third kind (aharaka).
None of these bodies is conscious. The awareness, consciousness, or knowledge in the person is a quality of the invisible, intangible soul having these five bodies or any of them.
CLASS VII. (GOTRA)
The energies which come in this class are those which determine the surroundings, family, etc., into which we are born. There are two sub-divisions of this class, namely, the force which takes us to high family circumstances, and that force which takes us into low circumstances.
CLASS VIII. (ANTARAYA)
The energies here are those which in their operation prevent or hinder our doing what is desirable to be done when we wish to do it or are willing to do it. In the fourth class of energies the inability to act rightly is owing to moral uncleanness, and consequent non-perception of what is right; whereas in this eighth class the right action is seen, but is not done; there is some weakness in us. For Private & Personal Use Only