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Doctrine of Karma
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Twenty Four Doctrine of Karma
1. Influenced by their own karmas, all beings wander in the
wheel of Saṁsāra and suffer according to their previously acquired karmas. Without experiencing the fruit of the acquired karmas, they will never be liberated.
Sü. Ks. Sū. 1.2.4 2. All living beings owe their present form of existence to
their own karmas. Unable to express the endless sufferings that they undergo, they take various forms in the fourfold existence and remain fearful of birth, old age and death.
— Sü. Kr. Sū. 1.2.3.18 3. The karmas, bound by which the soul wanders in the cycle of birth and death, are eight in number; they are as follows:
- Utta. Sū. 33.1
4. (i) Knowledge obscuring ( jñānāvaraṇīya), (ii ) vision
obscuring ( darśanāvaraniya ), ( iii ) feeling producing ( vedaniya), (iv) deluding (Mohanīya), (v) longevity determining ( Āyu ), ( vi ) form determining ( Nāma ), (vii ) status determining (Gotra) and 8. power obscuring (Antarāya).
- Utta. Sū. 33.2,3
5. Whenever a soul experiences this or that mental state at
that very time it gets bound by a corresponding auspicious or inauspicious karma.
- Upadeśa. 24
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