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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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(7) Charity (Dāna)-One who spends his wealth earned honestly for benevolent acts earns Shatavedniya Karma.
(8) Rigidity of devotion to religion (Dhradha-Bhakti)-One who is rigid in his devotion to religion also earns Shatavedniya Karma.
Persons practising conduct contrary to the conduct above-mentioned earns Ashatavedniya (Pain producing) Karma. Now-adays your life is full of woes, worries and unrest. The reason is, you have neglected respect for the elders, have dismissed forebearance, have removed compassion from your heart, and have highly retarded yourself in religious vows, self-restraint and control over passions. You cannot part with your wealth for charity, for small acts of charity, you crave for popularity and whatever you give in charity is mostly wealth, earned dishonestly. You have lost faith in religion. If some one passes bitter remarks against you, if your superior officer threatens you or if you have to incur some loss then you become nervous and abandon religious practice. When this situation will improve, peace and happiness will prevail and worries will vanish from your life.
BELIEF AND CONDUCT-OBSCURING KARMA (Mohaniya Karma)
That is Mohaniya Karma which causes the soul infatuated with delusion to wander in the world. This act is intoxicant like liquor. Consumption of liquor makes a man lose his senses and sense of propriety, similarly with the influence of this Karma man is deprived of his sense of discrimination and right conduct.
Mohaniya Karma is highly responsible for suppressing the power of soul and for degrading it to the worldly life, and due to this reason, this Karma is termed as the king of Karmas. Till this king is powerful, all other types of Karmas are also powerful and on enervation of this king all the Karmas are also enervated.
If soul is possessed of right knowledge, attachment or delusion is reduced or weakened. If the knowledge of the soul is obscured then attachment or delusion becomes more powerful and that is why one should be always out for acquisition of knowledge. Here knowledge means religious knowledge or spiritual knowledge, because knowledge of worldly affairs cannot reduce the intensity of attachment or delusion. If you can annihilate totally Mohaniya
