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are the channels of acquiring knowledge ; and the indulging of the senses does not bring consciousness but stops it, you do 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 unclean 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 meaning, and means all other activities of body, mind, and speech which are not included in the first three forces mentioned, 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. So that, the philosophy of karma explains the injustice and inequalities in the world. We do sometimes generate the Karma even 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,
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