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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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When a man of true knowledge is criticized as a useless manman of no sense, then such a man of true knowledge is deemed to have been offended. If such a man of true knowledge is not properly respected then also it amounts to his annoyance or displeasure. Those who offend the holder of true knowledge thus, also contract the bondage of knowledge-obscuring karmas or Intuition-obscuring Karmas.
Those persons who degrade the religious preceptor, sacred texts or their meaning, contract very rigidly the bondages of knowledge-obscuring karmas. Those who envy, condemn or insult the learned or the preceptor or act as their adversary, contract very rigidly knowledge-obscuring or intuition-obscuring Karmas. If one obstructs a person acquiring knowledge or self-study then such a person contracts very rigid ties of knowledge-obscuring or intuition-obscuring karmas. Now a days, students studying religion in a class or an observer of Samayika is openly disturbed by loud roars of laughter and chats. These are indications of low culture and they bind the Soul.
Means and materials required in attaining knowledge viz., books. slates, tables etc. should not be hammered, spitted on, or pushed away. This amounts to degradation of knowledge. You should avoid such actions, otherwise you will accumulate knowledge-obstructing or intuition-obstructing Karmas to secure penalty of intellectual stupidity or ignorance in the next life. Thus by insulting the men of knowledge and materials of knowledge, Knowledge-obscuring and intuition-obscuring Karmas are contracted and the soul has to undergo cruel rewards of these Karmic bonds.
PARTICULAR CAUSES OF CONTRACTING BILLS-OBSCURING KARMAS
In the treatise on "Karmas" a stanza occurs mentioning particular causes of knowledge-obscuring and intuition-obscuring karmas and there are two stanzas mentioning particular causes of intuition-obscuring and right conduct-obscuring karmas, and these two Karmas are most dreadful as they are the sources of feelings of passions, prejudice, warfare, quarrel, antagonism and all kinds of enmity leading the soul to hellish state.
Karmas which obscure intuition are more dreadful than those
