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body has been fully formed, pure Audarik Kaya yog appears. In the same manner, since there are the Vaikriya Mishra and Aharak Mishra, there are three Mishra Kaya yogs. When the jiva traverses to the next life (janma) on the way first, it goes straight and then it has to turn twice and proceed. When the jiva turns for the first time, it does not have any connection with the body it has discarded or with the body it is going to assume; so, at that time its activities are those of a mere Karman Sharir. Karman Sharir means the karmas that are clinging to the soul. Its activity is called the Karman kaya yog. At that time, the jiva does not consume any pudgals of food. That phase is anahari i.e. a phase when the jiva does not consume any food. In this manner, there are in all seven Kaya yogs.
All told, the body, the mind and the voice have 15 kaya yogs. Of them, there are two kinds; namely, the auspicious ones and the inauspicious ones. Truthful speech, truthfulness in respect of mental activity and the activities relating to dharma are auspicious vocal, and mental activities. In the same manner, the physical activities relating to dharma are auspicious. The remaining ones are inauspicious. We attain punya (merit) by means of auspicious yoga and sin by means of inauspicious yoga.
PRAMAD (NEGLIGENCE)
PRAMAD is that on account of which the soul stops taking delight in contemplating on its own form. Pramad is mainly of five kinds. Arrogance, sensual cravings, passions (kashayas) sleep and engaging in gossiping. In the same manner, attachments, hatred, ignorance, doubt, illusion, forgetfulness, are the evil activities of the mind, body and voice. Besides these, there are two others; not caring for dharma and not having enthusiasm for dharma. These eight constitute pramad.
Even after a man discards all sins and gets initiated into the charitradharma, he will be a pramatta (one who is under the impact of pramad) if he has even a grain of pramad or negligence. If he discards pramad completely, then he becomes an
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