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comparable to the Christian heaven. It is a state in which pleasure preponderates over pain, there is some pain but mostly pleasure.
2. Nāraka gati nāma karma is that karma which brings the living being into the naraka state where there is no pleasure at all but pain all the time, perhaps comparable to the Christian hell. (But it is not everlasting, it comes to an end.).
3. Manusya gati nāma karma is that karma which brings the living being into the human state, or ordinary human life.
4. Tiryanca gati nāma karma is that karma which brings the living being into the animal state, (animal, insect, fish, bird, vegetable, or mineral life).
GROUP 2 5 Jāti nāma kartas
5. That karma by reason of which the living being has the sense of touch.
6. The karma by reason of which the living being has the senses of touch and taste. (If a living being has only one sense, it is always the sense of touch; if two only, it is always touch and taste, and so on with the following.)
7. That karma by reason of which the living being has the senses of touch, taste and smell.
8. The karma by reason of which the living being has the senses of touch, taste, smell and sight.
9. That karma by reason of which the living being has the senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. (Vegetables would have only one organ of sense, the sense of touch.)
GROUP 3 5 Śarīra nāma karmas
10. Audārika sarira nāma karma is that karma by reason of which the living being has the ordinary physical body, that we actually see.
11. Vaikriya sarira nāma karma. By reason of the activity of this karma, the living being has a subtle body, which is changeable, it may be large and then small, have one shape and then another. The beings in the state of deva and in the state
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