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and experiences the good or bad results of them. Thus, the pure soul alone does no Karmas, it does them only if combined with Karmic matter in its embodied, mundane condition. Nor does matter do Karmas, except in so far as it becomes the essential means or necessary auxiliary cause (Nimitta Karana) of Karmas being done by the soul.
Another consideration confirms the above. The first process in Karmas is Asrava, their inflow towards the soul. This is done in one of three possible ways; the vibratory activity of mind, speech or body. As Umasvami teaches us in Tattvartha Sutra chapter VI, Aphorisms 1 and 2:#14 ATS #7: F otor: 11 S 11 7 : 112 11
Vibratory activity of body, speech and mind is Yoga. It is Asrava or inflow of Karma.
Now all body, speech and mind is pure matter and nothing else, i.e., apart from the 10 conscious soul which is embodied in it.
Things enjoyable by the senses, the five senses themselves, the bodies, the mind, the karmas and the other material objects, all this know as matter (pudgala).
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