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The four harming karmas

Ghātiyā

घातिया

Four karmas that harm the soul's own nature: they cover its knowledge, its perception, its clarity and its energy.

Jñānāvaraṇa, darśanāvaraṇa, mohanīya and antarāya. What distinguishes them is not their weight but their target: each obscures a quality the soul has by nature.

Their ending is what omniscience is. Mohanīya goes first, at the twelfth rung; the other three at its close; the soul that has shed all four is a kevalī at the thirteenth, still embodied, with only the four aghātiyā left to run out.

antarmuhūrta1 muhūrta8121 sāgaropama10⁵10¹⁰1 koṭākoṭi30 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaJñānāvaraṇa5 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaDarśanāvaraṇa9 sub-typesends at 1270 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaMohanīya28 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaAntarāya5 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.12 muhūrtaVedanīya2 sub-typesends at 1433 sāgaropamaantarmuhūrtaĀyu4 sub-typesends at 1420 koṭākoṭi sāg.8 muhūrtaNāma42 sub-typesends at 1420 koṭākoṭi sāg.8 muhūrtaGotra2 sub-typesends at 14ghātiyā · harmingaghātiyā · not harmingpast counting — placed by ratioThe eight karmas, by durationTattvārtha 8.14–8.20 · the same figures in both traditionsbelow the break, countable; above it, by ratio to a sāgaropamaāyu alone is in sāgaropama with no koṭākoṭi — deliberately70koṭākoṭi sāg. · mohanīya
The eight karmas, by duration — Ghātiyā highlighted

Measurements and counts

Membersjñānāvaraṇa, darśanāvaraṇa, mohanīya, antarāya
Shed bythe end of the 12th guṇasthāna
Resultkevalajñāna

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Ghātiyā karma · obstructive

Antarāya

अन्तराय

The obstructive karma: 5 sub-types, bound for an antarmuhūrta at the least and 30 koṭākoṭi sāgaropama at the most.

Five sub-types, obstructing five powers: giving, gaining, enjoying once, enjoying repeatedly, and energy itself.

It ends at the close of the twelfth; a kevalī's energy is unobstructed.

Kindghātiyā — harming
Sub-types5
Shortest holdantarmuhūrta
Longest hold30 koṭākoṭi sāgaropama
Ends atguṇasthāna 12

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10