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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
intend, there is no intention to act. This karma is an obstacle to the very formation of an intention. (Heater.)
Class 5. is the karma which determines the duration of any particular life period, such as the life on this planet from birth to death. It is always generated in the incarnation just next before. sig:
Class 6. is that karma which gives the living being the various factors of his objective individuality. Voice, colour, features, etc. It makes him Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones; his personality. [ATA]
Class 7. determines the surroundings, the family into which he is born, whether high or low. The birth into a certain family is not an accident, according to the Jain philosophy. It is determined by a certain kind of karma. There is really no such thing as 'accident', the word is only rightly used for those phenomena for which no explanation can be given; the Jain (Sanskrit ?) word for 'accident' means "I do dot know from what it has taken place”. [1]
Class 8. is the kind of karma which, like the 4th, also acts as an obstacle, but to different things; in the 4th there was no desire of acting in the right way; in this 8th there is the desire to do something good, to enjoy certain good things, but still, although you
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