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IMPELLENT FORces, OR CAUSES
and it is therefore a general name. So that, certain karmas are generated by reason of the physiological activities. If a person is suffering from dispepsia, he perhaps loses his temper. Here is karma generated at once and manifested, at once. We do sometimes generate the Karma eren now and have the result the next moment. We are, as a matter of fact, generating karma every moment, (This was said by the lecturer, but night be misleading, because we can stop the inflow and we can work out all the karmas and finally become a liberated soul, which will appear later en).
The impellent force is called in Sanskrit Hetu. It signifies 'the means by which', 'the instrumental Cause'.
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