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and deluding karmas are called ghâtîya obstructive, because they obscure the nature of the soul. They are bad or demeritorious karmas. When there is a strong passionate thought-activity, the force of fruition will be stronger in them, but if the passions are mild the force of fruition will be weaker. Their forces being taken as stronger, strong, weak and weaker are exemplified by four examples in hardness and softness respectively of stone, bone, wood and creeper.
At the time of ripening the karmas will yield fruits in proportion to their strength and then shed off.
The other four karmas are called aghâtîya--nondestructive. Each one of them is of two kinds good and bad. Good age, body making, family and feeling karmas are merits, while bad age, body-making, family and feeling karmas are demerits.
The fruition of these four good karmas is milder, mild, strong, and stronger exemplified by sweetness of molasses, sugar, refined sugar and nectar respectively: while the fruition of the above four bad karmas is also, milder, mild, strong and stronger exemplified by bitterness of a neem tree leaf, kanjira fruit, poison and deadly poison respectively.
Thus every mundane soul has four kinds of bondage according to its good or bad thought-activities.
How the karmas operate and shed off :
When the karmic molecules are bound, they take some time to become ripened ; till then they remain in
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