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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
MEANS FOR SOUL KARMA BOND:
Bondage of soul or Atma by Karma particles is due to two reasons. These two reasons are pleasures and yoga. All other reasons are sub divisions of these two. The Karma bonded by pleasures and yoga are known as Sampryayik Karma whereas the absence of pleasures are called Eryapathic Karma. We will try to understand this concept as follows:
If we can consider or visualize Atma as a clean wall, and pleasures as gummy material or cement, and yoga as air, the essential ingredient to support life, then we can easily understand the bondage of Karma. As long as on the clean wall of Atma, gummy material is pasted, the dust of Karma will be cemented or glued to Atma. This dust of Karma has come from the storm of Yoga. The dust of Karma will be stable or non stable. Or, this means whether it will be strongly or loosely bonded. This act of bondage to the wall of Atma will depend on the cementing material. If you stick a piece of paper with water to the wall of your living room it will come off by itself or it will come off when you turn on the fan. But if you paste the same paper with gum, then it will form a tight bondage to the wall and it will not come off easily no matter how long your fan in the living room is on. This tells the quality of
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