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OUTLINES OF JAINA PHILOSOPHY
1. Sata-vadaniya karma.-It causes a feeling of pleasure as for instance, we have the feeling of pleasure by licking something sweet like honey, etc.
2. Asata-vedaniya karma.-It produces the feeling of pain as for example, pain is produced if one is hurt by a sword.
The sātā-vedaniya is predominant with gods and human beings, although pain can be produced with the former at the time of the downfall from the heavenly world and with the latter through cold and heat, death and accident, and the like. Animal beings and beings of hell experience chiefly the asata-vedaniya, although on some occasions, they also experience a feeling of pleasure.1 BELIEF AND CONDUCT-OBSCURING KARMA
This kind of karma obstructs true faith and right conduct. It is called mohaniya karma. It has two chief divisions: obstruction of belief and obstruction of conduct, i.e., darśana-mohaniya and caritra-mohaniya.
(a) Darśana-mohaniya karma.--It produces an obstruction of the faith of the true nature of objects. The obstruction is further divided into three sub-species:
1. Mithyātva mohaniya.-It produces complete wrong belief or heterodoxy. The soul possessing this kind of mohaniya karma does not believe in the truths as proclaimed by a true authority but believes false prophets who enjoin false doctrines to be saints.
2. Samyaktva mohaniya-It induces correct belief. It is not the right faith in its completeness but only in a preliminary degree. The true belief in its completeness is obtained only when the samyaktva mohaniya karma is entirely destroyed, as for instance, the sun which is covered by white clouds only shines perfectly after the clouds have been removed.
3. Miśra mohaniya-It produces a mixed belief having some degree of truth and some of falsity. In other words, it causes a kind of indifference between true faith and false belief. It is a mixture of both samyaktva mohaniya and
1 Commentary on Karma-grantha, I, 13.
