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SUBDIVISIONS OF NĀMA (OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY
DETERMINING) KARMA
Introductory
There are 103 subdivisions of this karma. It is called nāma karma (name karma). It gives the personality; and when destroyed or rather removed, the soul does not pass through these mixed phases of matter and spirit; when worked out, the nature of the individual is the same all the time, his personality is fixed, and it is a continuous life, a soul in the purest condition. 103 Subdivisions of Nāma Karma
The 103 kinds are grouped as follows :
14 which are called 'Collective karmas’, the collective stuff of the various karmas.
8 which are called pratyeka prakıti karmas. 10 which is a collection called 'trasa daśaka'. 10 Which is a collection called 'sthāvara dasaka'.
But this ony makes 42, but the first 14 are by smaller subdivisions made into 75. 75 Pinda Praksti Nāma Karmas
The first 75 subdivisions, then, of the nāma karma are as follows, and to assist in grasping them, it can be remembered that they consist of 14 groups, and the whole 75 are called ‘collective' or pinda praksti.
GROUP I 4 Gati nāma karmas
1. Deva gati nāma karma is that karma that brings the living being into that state of existence, known as the deva state; it is a pleasurable state in a fine subtle body, perhaps
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