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FOURTH LECTURE.
It is the classification of the karmas from the point of view of their nature or function that is now being given. Class I. has been called knowledge obscuring karma or Jnanavaraniya karma. And as there are five forms of knowledge, as already mentioned, so there are five subdivisions of this Class I, namely, karma which obscures either the mutijnana, the shrutajaana, the avadhi, the manah-paryavajnana, or the kevala-juana.
(This detailed classification of the karmas, or rather the subdivisions of the eight Classes, continues now up to the end of the lecture No. 9; Class 1. is subdivided into 5 subdivisions; Class 2. into 9 subdivisions; Class 3, into 2 subdivisions; Class 4. into 28 subdivisions; Class 5. into 4 subdivisions; Cass 6. into 103 subdivisions; Class 7. into 2 subdivisions; Class 8 into 5 subdivisions.)
To continue with No. 1.
the
subdivisions of CLASS
Subdivision the 2nd: is that karma which obscures the second form of knowledge (sbrutajnana). Shrutajnana is knowledge acquired by interpreting
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