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Now a barber daily visited the merchant's house for shaving purpose. He actually witnessed this operation and he decided to become rich overnight. Next morning he told his wife to cook nice eatables and he left for the temple. There he could not find any monk. He repeatedly went even on the third day. He continued the experiment for 29 days to find on the 30th day a monk sitting in the temple, who was pleased to accept the barber's invitation. The monk was properly fed and was felled down with a stick-blow on the eve of his departure.
The monk shouted and screamed out. The people and the police arrived on the spot who arrested the barber and produced him before the king. The barber disclosed his entire plan. The king summoned the merchant to get himself convinced on facts. He also told the king entire account right from the beginning. The king was much delighted to find that such a meritorious person stayed in his city. The merchant was accorded royal honours and the barber was released after due punishment.
You must have now properly realised that prosperity depends on merits which are earned by charitable deeds
Karmas are eightfold. I) Obscuring knowledge, 2) Obscuring intuition, 3) Causing feelings. 4) Obscuring bliss, 5) Determining life-span, 6) Determining personality, 7) Determining Surroundings, 8) Obscuring power.
Here knowledge-obscuring, intuition-obscuring, bliss obscuring and power obscuring Karmas head the list as they are rigid (Ghati) Karmas, and all their sub varieties are evil. This is not the case with flexible Karmas. Some of their varieties are auspicious and some of them are evil. Really speaking right and evil operations in Karmas follow due to these Karmas.
42 AUSPICIOUS AND 37 EVIL SUB-SPECIES OF FLEXIBLE KARMAS
Feeling producing Karmas have two sub-species. 1) Pleasure producing and 2) Pains-producing. The former variety is auspicious and the latter one is evil. When the pleasure-feeling Karmas are unfolded, pleasure is experienced and peace and mirth prevail at heart; whereas contrary effects follow when pain-feeling-Karmas are unfolded. The Soul undergoes feelings of anguish and sorrow
