The Jaina Doctrine of Karma And The Science Of Genetics: ▪ Prakṛti (Nature)

There are eight different types of main karmas. Depending upon our activities of mind, speech and body, we will accumulate one or more of these eight main karmas. Normally we (saṁsārī jīva) accumulate seven (eight once in a life time) main types of karmas at every moment. These main eight karmas are:

1. Knowledge obscuring (Jñānāvarṇa karma)
2. Perception obscuring (Darśanāvarṇa karma)
3. Feeling producing (Vedanīya karma)
4. Deluding-belief and conduct obscuring (Mohanīya karma)
5. Age-determining (Āyuṣya karma)
6. Body making (Nāma karma)
7. Status determining (Gotra karma)
8. Obstructive (Antarāya karma).^[36]

These karmas are grouped into two categories:

1. Ghāti (destructive) karmas.
2. Aghāti (Non-destructive) karmas.

1. Ghāti (destructive) karmas

Ghāti means destructive. The karma that destroy the real nature of the soul are called the destructive or Ghāti karmas. These are:

1.	Knowledge obscuring	Jñānāvarṇa karma
2.	Perception obscuring	Darśanāvarṇa karma
3.	Deluding - belief and conduct obscuring	Mohaniyā karma
4.	Obstructive	Antarāya karma.

2. Aghāti (Non-destructive) karmas

The karma that don't destroy the real nature of the soul but affect the body in which the soul abodes are called non-destructive or Aghāti karma. Those are:

5.	Feeling producing	Vedanīya karma
6.	Body making	Nāma karma
7.	Status determining	Gotra karma
8.	Age determining	Āyuṣya karma