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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
Sometime back a wealthy man got murdered many dogs by feeding them with poison-mixed sweet-balls. A newspaper remarked that such a man's act amounts to highly deplorable act of cruelty, but the killer of dogs could not digest this Compliment' and he filed a suit for defamation. The Court held that it was not an act of cruelty as the dogs were not killed under gradual tortures but they were suddenly done to death with these poisonous "death balls". The press was held guilty and was fined. This incident implies that even the cold-blood-murderer does not choose to distinguish himself as "cruel".
Now, as we proclaim, these four Karmas as "very cruel". We need not worry that they would file a suit against us for defamation. If at all they do so, we are prepared to prove in the divine court that they are indeed very cruel, as they constantly consume or annihilate our merits and they do not leave for our soul any rest at all.
If at all our soul escapes from their clutches even for a moment, do you think it would again fall a prey to them? Certainly not. Chhatrapati Shivaji could not be regained when once he escaped from the intrigues of Aurangzeb. Why not note the incident of Shri Subhash Bose who never was regained by the Britishers when once he escaped from their grip.
These four highly cruel Karmas are: (1) Knowledge-obscuring, (2) Intuition obscuring, (3) Bliss-obscuring, (4) Power-obscuring.
SPECIFIC CAUSES OF CONTRACTING BONDAGES OF KNOWLEDGE
OBSCURING AND INTUITION-OBSCURING KARMAS
Retrogression from sinful acts, activity for self-elevation and attainment of modesty—these three virtues are attained only when knowledge dawns and that is why knowledge is deemed as something very sacred. Others also accept the sacredness of knowledge by declaring "Nothing in this world is so pious as knowledge. Now if one argues, "What is good of knowledge, nothing is gained by achieving knowledge. The learned and the ignorant both have to die after all, and so it is useless to strive after knowledge”, then such a person who talks in this manner contracts bondages of Karmas known as "knowledge-obscuring" and "Intuitionobscuring".
