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of the mind, body and speech. According to strong or mild yoga power under good and bad activities, greater or less nurnber of karmic molecules having more or less number of classes are attracted and bound. Thus yoga causes two kinds of bondage, class and mole cule.
When anger, pride, deceit, or greed etc. passions are strong then all the classes of karmas except age karmas have more duration ; if they are mild, the duration will be for smaller periods. The karmas which are bound are either good or bad.
When passions are strong, there is less fruition in good karmas, while more in bad ones; but when passions are mild, there is more fruition in good karmas and less in bad ones.
As to age karma, if it is bad age karma of hell, there will be greater duration, if passions are strong ; but lesser, if they are mild; but for the good age karmas of sub-human, human, celestial, if passions are mild there will be more duration ; if they are strong, duration will be for short period.
Prakriti or class bondage.
There are eight classes according to the nature of karmas ; even these eight have got one-hundred and forty-eight sub-classes according to their different varieties of natures. It will be useful to know all of them. : Class 1. Sub-classes 5. Jnâna varana karma. Knowledge-obscuring karma--It obscures the attribute
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