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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
reason of certain impelling forces in the individual soul. It is the crystalisation of thought into physical act. It is a force which determines the individual differences of character, incongruities, inequalities -and accidents of human life. The Law of Karma teaches that the individual soul is the builder of his present and future life. It accounts for organic or inorganic changes. It counts for births and deaths and various grades of Samsar.
It is a foreign matter and obscures the innate nature of the Soul i. e. Knowledge, wisdom, love, compassion, and strength of the Soul. Desire generates the Karmic energy. If they remain unsatisfied at the time of death they form the very germ of future life. Karma is not entirely separate from the individual who generates it, so far as past lives are concerned there was not any time when the soul was without Karma. To ra luce this subtle combination of Soul and Karma, mental and moral disciplines are imperatively prescribed by scriptural texts. The obscuring Karma being removed, the natural qualities of the Soul shine in full effulgence. The philosophy of Karma may be studied from different standpoints, such as its nature, quality, action, experience of pleasure and pain, intensity, duration, the process of generation, manifestation, stopping the inflow of Karma from the beginning and then annihilating the Karmas in deposit.
Karma may be classified under eight heads. I Jnānāvaraniya. Knowledge obscuring.
