Jains recognise eight main types of karma (Prakriti) which are categorized as either ‘harming’ or ‘non-harming’, with each category further divided into four types. The harming karmas (ghātiyā karmas) directly affect the soul powers by impeding its perception, knowledge and energy, and also bring about delusion.

Karmas are of innumerable types. Lord Umaswati in Tattwarthasutra mentions 97 types in all. Some others specify 148 types. All of them can however be broadly classified into 8 categories as detailed below.

2024年11月6日 · The number 8 represents the principle of karma, suggesting that our actions have far-reaching consequences. It embodies the idea that “what goes around comes around,” reminding us to act with integrity and kindness.

2017年11月17日 · Here you maysee not a detailed but a brief sketch of the eight karmas. The Original qualities of tha soul and karmas that covers those qualities are: 1. Anant Jnan is covered by Jnanavaraniya Karma. 2. Anant Darsan is covered by Darsanavaraniya Karma. 3. Anant Charitra is covered by Mohaniya Karma. 4. Anant Virya is covered by Antaray Karma. 5.

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2021年3月9日 · Yes, there are different types of karma. What’s your karma? Read on to recognize and identify it. 1. Individual karma: This is the easiest type of karma to understand, as we experience it more intensely. Individual karma is that karma resulting from the choices we make and the actions we take, which will certainly have an effect on our journey.

According to Jain karma theory, there are eight main types of karma (Prikriti) which are categorized into the ‘harming’ and the ‘non-harming’; each divided into four types. The harming karmas (ghātiyā karmas) directly affect the soul powers by impeding its perception, knowledge and energy, and also brings about delusion.

Karma is the basic principle within an overarching psycho-cosmology in Jainism. Human moral actions form the basis of the transmigration of the soul (jīva). The soul is constrained to a cycle of rebirth, trapped within the temporal world (saṃsāra), until it finally achieves liberation (mokṣa).

It has eight qualities (Guna) but these are hidden by eight types of karma and hence the atma is caught in this cycle of birth and rebirth and experiences much unhappiness. The eight types of karma which hinder the progress of the atma towards moksha are: 1. Gyanavaraniya or Knowledge Obscuring Karma.

Karma infects and defiles all worldly organisms and veils, vitiates or obstructs the above-mentioned eight qualities of a pure soul and keeps it away from its supreme state of existence. Accordingly there are eight primary types of Karma. Knowledge obscuring (Jnanavarna) Karma obscures the pure and perfect knowledge.