Jainism by Vividus

Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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of Jiva and Ajiva), this, as stated, is true but by way of "Vyavahara naya" (modifications point of view which is changing, in relation to the individual Jiva and Ajiva); this as stated, is not true; as individual jivas can and do attain liberation i.e. Moksha, thereby completely destroying this eternal contact.
The eight kinds of karmic chemical combinations are as follows:
1. Jnanavarniya Karma: this is responsible for obscuring the inborn right knowledge of the soul (omniscience) and thereby producing different degrees of knowledge and ignorance.
2. Darshanavarniya Karma: this is obscuring inborn right intuition and thereby faith of the soul, causing such qualities as stupor, indifference, sleep etc. to surface.
3. Vedaniya Karma: this is responsible for obscuring the inborn bliss nature of the soul, thereby causing pleasure and pain, likes and dislikes etc.
4. Mohaniya Karma: this is responsible for disturbing the right attitude of the soul with regard to trust, conduct, passions, and other emotions, producing doubt, error, right or wrong attachments and various mental states.
5. Ayushya Karma: this determines the length of life in one birth, as also the state (Gati) of life as hell-being, animal, plant, man or divine beings which are ultra humans.
6. Nama Karma: this is responsible for producing various circumstances or elements which collectively make up an individual existence e.g. a particular body in the Gati with its general or special qualities or faculties.
7. Gotra Karma: this determines nationality, caste, family, social standing and such other circumstances making or frustrating the existence in one birth.