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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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those living beings in whom right belief does not exist, they, having formed no right or wrong beliefs; it is a state of the ilack of development. Lack of development is injurious. The Sanskrit name of this first impellent force by reason of which, the karma is generated is Mithyatva. (Mithya means wrong; and tva means 'ness'.)
2. Lack of control over the senses and over the mental activities. The senses ( taste, sight, etc.) are the channels of acuiring knowledge; and the indulging of the senses does not bring consciousness but stops it, you not go further in thought about it. And if you have lack of control over the mental activity, when it is injurious to other people, when you do not or cannot stop injurious thoughts about another person, you generate a karma; the uncontrolled thought activity is the impellent force for the generation of karma. ( The lecturer did not say, but I conclude that a tune persisting in the head against our will is an illustration very easy to recognize.) The name of this impellent force is Avirati.
3, Kashaya. Literally unclean moral nature. An unclear moral nature is the third impellent force by reason of which karma is generated.
4. Yoga. The word yoga has many meanings, but here it has a technical :zlea:ving, and means all other activities of body, mind, and speech whicb are not included in the first three forces mentioned,
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