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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
undifferentiated knowledge, formless knowledge; the limitations and boundaries are not fixed and you only know the thing as belonging to a class and not individualized.
That karma which obscures the general perceiving faculty is called darśanāvaraniya karma.
Class 3. is that karma the result of which is the feeling of either pain or pleasure. Knowledge by itself is not pain nor pleasure, but on account of certain karma in me, I feel pain or pleasure. Experiencing pain or pleasure is different from the consciousness or awareness of pain or pleasure. In consciousness there is no pain or pleasure, though at the time of pain or pleasure there may be consciousness of it. Feeling is quite a distinct phenomenon from consciousness. The karna by reason of which we have feelings of pains and pleasures is called vedaniya karma.
Class 4. is that kind of karma which obstructs or acts as an obstacle to the formation of right belief and right conduct. Belief (conviction, that it is wrong to kill, for instance) is different from knowledge. In the worst form of this kaina, we believe that which is wrong to be right, and that which is right to be wrong. A subdivision of this karma acts also as an obstacle to right conduct. The person does not intend to act in the right way. This karma is an obstacle to the very formation of right intention.
It is called mohaniya karma. (Literally, intoxicating karma, that is, mental or moral intoxication.) Its nature is to infatuate our mental and moral nature, in such a way that we are not able to distinguish between right and wrong.
Class 5. Ayuh karma. (Literally, duration of life.) It determines the duration of the life and the general nature of the life. This karma generated in this life determines what the next incarnation or rebirth will be like and its duration. (But it does not fix the number of years or months of life, it is rather 'quantity of life than length; and as water can be squeezed out of a sponge quickly or slowly, so if this āyuh is used up quickly, the life in years will be a less number than if it be used up slowly or spun out.)
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