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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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1. Mada; pride, through which a person kills. It implies arrogance and is a state which ignores the rights of other living beings.
2. Vishaya; sense pleasure which leads to killing.
3. Kashaya: the kashayas anger, greed, deceit; etc, lead to killing in their intense degrees where the Teason is lost as in wrath and anger.
4. Nidra; sleep. We cannot exercise care and caution when asleep and may kill a living thing if it gets in the bed. Mothers even kill their babies in this state,
5. Vikatha; undesirable conversation which leads to passion, lust, and excitement of mind, and then to killing. Duels, for instance; fights, and TOWS.
These five kinds of activities are what is meant above by negligent activities.
PRANAS. Different living beings have different numbers of pranas (life forces) as follows:
Beings with cnly one organ of sense possess. four pranas, namely:
1. Touch. 2. Respiration. 3. Force of body. 4. Duration of life (ayuh).
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