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124 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
8. Sleep while walking (known sometimes of soldiers on the march).
9. The somnambulistic state; this is the worst form of this kind of karma (of darśanāvaraniya karma). Āvaraniya means obscuring or preventing. This also includes the hypnotic state.
The higher you rise in advancement, the more you have the consciousness of your thoughts, of your actions, and of every activity through which you pass. The less you are conscious of these things, in the downward direction you are going.
With regard to the avadhi lately mentioned where the soul comes to know directly of distant things without the use of the eye or ear etc., this avadhi must take place in the waking state, while the eye and ear etc. are there and awake, this avadhi is
ny kind of dream or trance state, it takes place in the ordinary waking state when one is up and about. Two Subdivisions of Vedaniya Karma
There are two subdivisions of this karma, namely as follows:
1. Karma which in its working causes feelings of pain. 2. Karma which in its working causes feelings of pleasure.
It is necessary for a distinction to be made between feelings of pain or pleasure and such feelings as pride, grief, anger and others. Feelings of pain and pleasure do not necessarily hinder the progress of the soul; feelings of pride, anger, etc. do; but if you identify yourself with a pain or a pleasure, you come to a stop, you do not continue in the right strain. The name of this 3rd class of karma is vedaniya karma.
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