Treatise on Jainism

Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi
Publisher: S J Sanghvi

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(6) Nama, Body-making Karma. This gives
the soul a distinguishing form of existence, determines its classes. It causes condition of existence, formation of different kinds of bodies and the change from one to another condition of existence (93 sub
classes). (7) Gotra, Family-determining Karma. This
imparts a high or low status in life i.e. by which a soul is to take birth in a
high or a low family (2 sub-classes). (8) Antaraya, Obstructive Karma. This
creates hindrance in the ways of Soul's. giving of gifts or achieving of things, in its abilities and in its faculties of use and enjoyment. It obscures the infinite power of the soul (5 sub-classes).
Numbers 1, 2, 4 and 8 are called Ghatiya Karmas and numbers 3, 5, 6 and 7 are called Aghatiya Karmas. Ghatiya Karmas are called because they destroy the manifestation of the real and essential attributes of the soul. The manifestation of these attributes in mundane souls varies inversely to the proportionate decrease of the forces of these four destructive