Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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KARMA.
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It is accumulated through entanglement 4. Mohaniya Karma.
in worldly attachments. If a man in one
birth is so absorbed in worldly ties that he never thinks of religion, he will be kept away in the next birth from those he loves.
A'yu Karma ( 419 ${) fixes the period during which a man will experience heaven or hell or earthly life. In
each birth man is building up his A'yu 5. A'yu Karma. Karma for his next life. A'yu Karma cannot be accumulated beyond one rebirth. Nāma Karma (41174 $) decides whether a man will
be reborn as an animal or a bird, whether 6. Na'ma Karma.
in hell or as a god, i. e, in which Gati* he will be reborn.
Gotra Karma (11932). A man's actions in one life decide in what caste he will be born in the next : thus by
doing good to others, by looking always 7. Gotra Karma.
me at the bright side of people, or by taking an interest in animal asylums he can try to avoid being born in a low caste, and even hope to be born in one of the highest castes.
Antarāya Karma (461214 32). If in one life a man has money and is not willing to spend it on others, or if he 8. Antara'ya has influence or energy and yet refuses
Karma: to serve others, he will in his next birth be born without money, influence or energy.
* There are four Gati : Manusya Gati ( 2900 mA), Deva Gati (Eq
ara), Tiryanca Gati (müza), and Nāraki Gati (al1231 xsa), and they are frequently represented by the Svastika symbol.