Treatise on Jainism

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

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A Treatise on Jainism
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Karmas. The Aghatiya Karmas are called because they do not obscure the real attributes of the soul, but affect only the external environments of the soul and pertains to body.
As said above there are mainly 8 kinds of classes (Prakrites) of Karmic matter and these 8 classes have 148 sub-classes. The subclasses are as under :(1) Jnanavarneeya, Knowledge-obscuring
Karma (5). 1. Mati , i.e. Sensitive-knowledge
obscuring. 2. Shruta , „ Scriptural 3. Avadhi , „ Visual 4. Manahparyaya , Mental
5. Keval , ,, Perfect (2) Darshnavarneeya, Conation-obscuring
Karma (9) 6. Chakshuig i.e. Ocular-conation
obscuring 7. Achakshu , , Non-ocular 8. Avadhi „ „ Visual 9. Keval
Perfect 10. Nidra
Sleep 11. Nidra-Nidra » Deep sleep