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I am the Soul
Karmas, acquires the birth and other properties. This is the affected transition of the Jiva.
In another way, our activities of mind, speech or body are mostly subject to attachment or to aversion. If we analyse all our activities, we would realise that not a single activity is without the influence of attachment or aversion. Either one of those feelings is connected always. So to say they are mixed in the hue of attachment and aversion. This mixing is the affected disposition and it results in the bondage of karma and sets up a chain reaction of further affected disposition. Thus with an interaction with Karma, the jiva is transformed into the affected transition. When it becomes free of all karma, the affected disposition is removed and it transits in to its natural disposition.
At this point let us wait to ponder. We always say, “The feelings of attachment and aversion that arise in me, the passions like anger that overcome me, are all the result of my Karmas. Even when miseries come in, they are the result of the rise of my Karmas, the result of my sins. Had the Karmas not been there. I would not have been in misery at all.' Thus we blame our destiny and our Karmas. But what is Karma? Of what and of what sort is this transition?
Karma is inanimate, it is Pudgal. In its original form, it is nothing but an atom. But when it merges with other atoms to form a cluster of two, three, numerous, innumerable or infinite atoms, that is its transition into affected disposition. The infinite number of atoms abounding in the atmosphere of this entire Loka, are always in a free transition towards their natural disposition. But when they form a cluster, the Pudgal Skandhas (9667 BET) - group of atoms - get attracted towards jivas due to the jivas' feelings of attachment and aversion. Or shall we say, the jivas attract the Pudgal with their attachment and aversion. The Pudgal Skandhas that get attached to the Jivas, transit into various forms. Those are -
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