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70 / Lord Mahavira
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Types of Karma
There are eight chief types of karma-1. Knowledge obscuring karma, 2. Perception obscuring karma, 3. Feeling producing karma, 4. Deluding karma, 5. Age determining karma, 6. Physique making karma, 7. Status determining karma, 8. Power obscuring karma. The main eight types of karma are further sub divided into 148 sub types. According to Jainism all the worldly beings can be divided into four states. 1. The existence of gods, 2. The existence of human beings, 3. The destiny of animals and plants, 4. The state of infernal beings. Five classes of beings are-1. The beings with one sense like earth, water etc, 2. The beings with two senses like shell, 3. The beings with three senses like ants etc, 4. The beings with four senses like mosquitos, flies etc, 5. The beings with five senses like plants, animals and human beings. The human beings always possess three types of bodies namely physical, fiery and karmana body. The five types of bindings are categorized according to five types of bodies. The five types of unification are categorized according to five types of bodies. There are six types of stature determining bodies. The hour of death when the self goes to another state of existence is called the state of anapurvi. There are Ten Self movable bodies.
There are Ten Immovable bodies.
