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molecules by mental or vocal or physical, activities or vibrations
These karmas have been classified into eight kinds.
(1) Gyanavarniya Karma is that which obstructs knowledge. It acts as a hindrance in the attainment of Omniscient knowledge, the inherent and natural right of every soul. It has been compared to a curtain, which obstructs the vision of our desired objects enveloped thereby. Due to this very karma we come across innumerable differences in the faculty of comprehepsion amongst the mundane souls. This karma explains why one is a brilliant genius and the other is an idiot.
This karma is accumulated by such activities or mental dispositions, which are associated with the sinful habit of directly or indirectly obstructing the light of knowledge.
(2) Darshnavaraniya Karma obstructs that form of consciousness, which precedes knowledge. It is accumulated by the soul if evil practices referred to as the knowledge-obstructive karma obstruct the perception faculty of the soul, e. g., a gatekeeper hinders the entrance of a visitor to the residence of a dignitary, similarly this karma obstructs the perception of the objects.
(3) Vedaniya Karma enables the soul to have sensations of pleasure or pain through senses. The sensation of pleasure is not the experience of spiritual happiness, for the pleasure obtained by the
