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DISCOURSE XXVI
FURTHER CONSIDERATION ABOUT KARMIC
BONDAGE AND ITS CAUSES
Gentlemen,
Yesterday one gentleman came to meet us after the discourse was over, and he asked, “Why should the Karmas tarnish the Soul alone and not the body?” we replied, “Your inquiry is quite relevant but then you know, why people offer their five-fold prostrations to the Gods and to the Preceptors and not to you? If you reflect in this matter carefully you will get the proper solution of your inquiry”.
Reflecting for a while, that gentleman said, “I do not possess such merits and the people do not offer me prostrations”. We replied, "Apply the same reasoning here also. The body does not possess such merits and hence the Karmas do not tarnish the body but defile the Soul”. Moreover, we added, “You must have seen a magnet, when you hold it on a table, Iron pins would stick to it but no such reaction is found in the pins when placed before a wooden stick or a rubber toy. The pins would lie there only passively. From this, we should conclude that actions result from the type of a particular nature of an object".
That gentleman, said, "If sticking or tarnishing is the nature of Karmas then they would tarnish the Soul as well as the body. The Karmas cannot have the sense to discriminate between body and the soul as they are without any life activity".
We asked, “We hope, you know what is Karma ? They replied, "Of course, Karma is a lifeless entity. It is a kind of a matter".
We asked, “Are all matters Karmas ?”.
They said, “All matters cannot be called Karmas but only those which possess karmic particles are called Karmas”.
We said, “There is some misunderstanding in your conception. All around us, every where, high, up, down and on all the four sides in the entire universe Karmic particles are packed very closely but
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