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## Verse 242
**Yoga Margna/313**
No karma arises without a body. Therefore, it is the cause of both happiness and sorrow. Because without it, their existence is not possible. By this, the karma body, which is the constituent of name karma, is shaped. It is the germinator, producer, and seed of all happiness and sorrow in the three times. Therefore, the collection of karmas is the karma body.
The karma yoga is the cause of the destruction of the other bodies. Through karma yoga, which is the pulsation of the karma-created self-region, both the acquisition and the change of location of karmas occur.
The type of yoga practice is the restraint of the excretory, digestive, and bodily activities. All beings have only one yoga at a time.
**Verse Meaning:**
In the sixth stage of restraint, the activities of the excretory body and the digestive body do not occur simultaneously. All beings have only one yoga at a time.
**Special Meaning:**
This verse indicates that the power of excretion and the power of digestion are possible simultaneously for a restrained muni, but the origin of the excretory body and the origin of the digestive body are not possible simultaneously. The special meaning is as follows:
"A being who attains human existence from a divine state, takes initiation, becomes restrained, and creates a digestive body. Five bodies are possible in relation to the restraint of that former deity, like a pot of ghee. Even though both the digestive and excretory bodies arise in a restrained being, due to the absence of their simultaneous activity, four bodies are possible simultaneously by the abandonment of one. The five bodies exist because the excretory body is based on existence. This sutra should be applied here."
The opinion of the author of the Naswartha Sutra is different. There, only the existence of up to four bodies in a being is accepted. In the commentary on this sutra, Shri Akalankdev has clearly denied the five bodies. Because the digestive body belongs to a restrained human being, he does not have an excretory body. Deities and hell beings have excretory bodies, but they do not have digestive bodies. The simultaneous existence of the digestive body and the excretory body is not possible. The reason for this is that the reactive body of humans and animals is not considered excretory, but rather, it is considered to be the result of the power of the digestive body.