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are dead as A, the karmas must still bear full fruits. The karmas constitute the karmic body and it drags us into another state of being."
The fusion of soul with matter results in the production of eight kinds of forces : those which obstruct knowledge: those which interfere with perception; those which obstruct right beliefs; those that regulate the experiences of pleasure and pain; those which are responsible for the building of different kinds of bodies and shaping the limbs; those that determinie the duration of life; those that determine the lineage of the individual and lastly those which interfere with the doing of desired actions. ++
The union of karmie matter with soul lasts for a limited ume üccording to the intensity of passion present at the time of the influx. During this time it produces its effects and then sheds off gradually just as food and medicine produce effects inside the body for some time and then go on. Control of mind, body and speech leads to the prevention of kurmio malter coming in and total freedom from all kurmic matter raises the soul to the status of divinity.
The theory outlined in the previous paragraph seems to be confirmed by the picture of life in which the activities of mind and matter constitute a super-radio sending and receiving a continuous chain of electrical waves, an account of which is given on page 69 et seq. Influx of these waves is nothing but the influx of fine karmic matter
Not only is matter the basis of pleasure, pain, life and death but one piece of matter is capable of producing physical and chemical changes in another piece of matter. This fact is connoted by the word upagraha in the Sütra. Says the author of sarvärtha-siddhi :
"स्वोपग्रहप्रदर्शनार्थमिदम्। पद्गलानां पद्गलकृत उपकार इति ।। तद्यथा-कांस्यादीनां भस्मादिभिर्जलादीनां कतकादिभिरयः प्रभृतीनाHoaf254 CATT: Bud 11"245
The examples given here are the purification of bronze by the addition of certain ashes, the purification of water by the addition of an organic substance 'Nirmali' and tempering of steel with the help of water.
244. For a luller and detailed account of these forces, read Gomma (saru, Ketua handlu. S.B.J. Scrics, Vol. VI.
245. Sarvartha-siddhi on Sutra 5.20.
