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LESSON III KARMA SIDDHANTA
The two most important substances are soul and matter; as the two real categories are soul and non-soul, matter being only one of the five classes which make up non-soul, Soul is living, matter is not. The union of the two cannot conduce to freedom, perfection or peace. The mind desires to pursue a train of thought or action; the body obeys up to a certain point, then refuses to work further. The mind is impotent to goad it on and is pained at being so dependently mated to a partner of such grossness and limitations. This is a matter of everyday experience.
Matter is without consciousness; Soul is conscious. Matter has no choice but to be moulded by the soul. The connection of soul and matter is material and it is effected by the soul's activity. The bondage is called Karma, since it is the karma or deed of the soul. It is material, forming a subtle bond of extremely refined Karmic matter which keeps the soul from flying up to its natural abode of full knowledge and everlasting peace.
Kinds of Karma
condition, the soul has four great
In this last mentioned attributes :
(1) Perfect perception of and faith in the reality of things, (2) Perfect knowledge, (3) Perfect power and (4) Perfect happiness.
Karmic matter keeps the soul away from the realization of this fourfold greatness, obscuring its perceptions and knowledge, obstructing its progress and success, and disturbing the equanimity of its existence. It is therefore called the four ghatiya or destructive KARMAS,
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