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The next group of karmas which demands our attention is mohaniya, which is of two kinds, darśana-mohaniya and charitra-mohaniya. The causes of the former kind are, (a) showing disrespect to the kevali (the soul who has conquered the four kinds of his ghatiya karmas, and has attained to omniscience), (b) finding fault with the Scripture of truth, i.e., the teaching of Jainism, (c) regarding a true muni as a charlatan, (d) imputing impiety to the residents of heavens and (e) treating religion with contempt.
Charitra-mohaniya is caused by such conduct as the failure to control desires and passions, abuse, idle talk, causing pain to another, keeping evil company, grief, delight in injuring others, heartlessness, backbiting, despising virtuous men and the like. The sex-passion peculiar to women is caused by becoming deeply attached to another man's wife, and by developing habits of thought and traits of character peculiar to women; the male sex-passion by milder forms of anger and greed, by sexual purity and by having no desire for the embellishment of one's body; and the neuter sex-passion by the intensity of the four kinds of passions (anger, pride, deceit and greed), castration, unnatural gratification, imputation of unchastity to a chaste and virtuous woman, and by madly falling in love with the married spouse of another.
The causes of the specific energies of the four kinds of ayuḥ karma are those which determine the duration of the association of the taijasa and the kārmāņa sariras with the body of gross matter. This depends on the quality of the material of the outer body and on the nature of its association with the other two, and is ultimately traceable to the good or bad karmas of the jiva himself.
Of the four kinds of ayuḥ karma, the first, namely, deva ayuḥ, depends on the ethereal body of devas which results from pure thoughts and actions, such as observance of vows, non-injuring, truthfulness, chastity, non-stealing and non-attachment. According to the Scripture no one who has already engendered the ayuḥ karma of life in hells (naraka ayuḥ) can have sufficient strength of will left to observe the five vows of a Jaina householder. The second, i.e., manuşya (human ayuḥ), is the fruit of actions of a middling-type, such as partial control of the senses, desires, passions and the like.
