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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
11th, 12th and 13th stage only the transient, short-living intensity is felt. In the 14th stage of development we cease to take in karma.
This does not mean that in the first ten stages we only accumulate karma that draws us ever deeper into the cycle of incarnations. While experiencing these stages we always have the option to stop attracting and binding new karma (i.e. to check our desires for themes of life that limit us), to dissolve our existing karma or to acquire special karma that furthers our freedom from karmic limitations and enables us to perceive the original, radiant nature of our consciousness. 'HOW TO DISSOLVE KARMA' explains these mechanisms.
SUTRA 5 इन्द्रियकषायाव्रतक्रियाः पञ्चचतुःपञ्चपञ्चविंशतिसंख्याः पूर्वस्य UGT: I 4 11 Indriya kasaya vrata kriyah pancha-chatuh-pancha-pancha vimshatisankhyah purvasya bhedah (5)
With our five senses, four negative passionate emotions, indifference to the Five Freedoms and by 25 types of activities we attract karma that prolongs our cycle of incarnations (samparayika). (5)
The five senses - Our tendency to experience our physical environment by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing and hearing it runs on such fundamental level that we tend to regard it as an unquestionable, absolute property of life.
Yet this preference to perceive our world e.g. as three-dimensional, as subject to gravity (as our feet resting on the ground), as matter being relatively stable, as nature being green in its phase of growth etc.
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