The Jaina Doctrine of Karma And The Science Of Genetics: Main Types (Mūla Prakṛti) Of Karma In Jainism

All living organisms, with their souls defiled by karma, have piecemeal and fragmented knowledge, intuition and energy, possesses perverted faith and embodied existence, experience joy and grief and a limited life span and are therefore, subject to cycles of birth and death. 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, main (mula prakṛiti) types of karma:

1	Jñānāvarṇa karma	knowledge obscuring karma	obscures the pure and perfect knowledge.
2	Darsanāvarṇa karma	intuition obscuring karma	obscures the pure and perfect intuition.
3	Vedanīya karma	feeling producing karma	holds up the self generated bliss and produces pleasures and pain, joy and grief in worldly life.
4	Mohanīya karma	deluding karma	produces delusion, meta physical and ethical. Prevents the innate ability of belief in truth. Destroys equanimity of conduct.
5	Āyuṣya karma	life span determining karma	determines the biological species as well as the duration of life-span.
6	Nāma karma	body making karma	embodies the bodyless soul and determines the diversities and individual traits.
7	Gotra karma	status determining karma	determines the status and family conditions.
8	Antarāya karma	abstracts/suppresses the spiritual energy.[5]