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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
- karma that hinder us to actively orient towards growth, blocks
our intuitive insight (samyag darshana) how to choose the optimal path to freedom from karmic limitations
These two types of karma further interfere with our ability to intuitively discriminate between truth and error..
They also block the use of 'Total Perception' - pramana 17 - for our inner growth. Total Perception is the key to more advanced levels of awareness. It enables us to evaluate the multitude of new impressions we perceive during an expansion of consciousness. It gives us the dreamlike certainty to amplify only those impulses that lead to further expansion.
SUTRA 11 दुःखशोकतापाक्रन्दनवधपरिदेवनान्यात्मपरोभयस्थान्यसवेद्यस्य Il 99 11
Duhkha shoka tapakrandana vadha paridevananyatma parobhayas-thany asadvedyasya (11)
- Enjoying and prolonging pain, painful emotions or suffering - enjoying and prolonging feelings of grief, sadness, remorse,
shame and commiseration - intentionally depriving others of their vitality and - lamenting openly to attract sympathy attracts karma that produces a negative (painful) feeling of life - irrespective if we induce this in ourselves or in others. (11)
Pain means bodily pain as well as painful emotions.
17 see 'THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE', sutra 6 and 10
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