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10 which is a collection called "
dashaka'
10 which is a collection called 'sthavara dashaka'.
But this only makes 42, but the first 14 are by smaller subdivisions made into 75.
trasa
The first 75 subdivisions, then, of the nāma karma are as follows, and to assist in grasping them, it can be remembered that they consist of 14 groups, and the whole 75 are called 'collective' or Pinda prakriti.
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GROUP I.
4 Gati nama karmas, namely:
I. Deva gati nāma karma, is that karma that brings the living being into that state of existence, known as the Deva state; it is a pleasureable state in a fine subtle body, perhaps comparable to the Christian heaven. It is a state, in which pleasure preponderates over pain, there is some pain but mostly pleasure.
2. Naraka gati nama 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. Manushya gati nāma karma, is that karma which brings the living being into the human state, ourardinary human life.
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