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relationship between karma and soul that forces the being to act against his intrinsic nature and provides coincidental cause as well.
PROCESS OF BONDAGE OF NEW KARMAS
The intrinsic nature of soul is knowledge, perception, and power. That intrinsic nature is partially eclipsed at a particular period depending on the knowledge-obscuring, perception obscuring, and power hindering karmas. The evident intensity of knowledge, perception, and power is active due to destruction-cum-suppression of these karmas and is a fraction of the tptal intrinsic nature of that soul. This intrinsic nature and its opposite are not created by karmas. The intrinsic nature of soul is always apparent in any condition in larger or smaller fraction. For example the visible light from behind a smaller or larger veil of cloud is a fraction of the light of the sun and caused by cloud cover.
The evident or active intrinsic nature of soul does not cause bondage of new karmas. If bondage was caused by intrinsic nature, how could liberation be achieved. The bondage of karma is also not caused by the fraction of knowledge, perception, and power rendered inactive due to fruition of karmas. Therefore, bondage of karma is not caused by the feelings or sentiments invoked due to fruition of knowledge, perception, and power veiling karmas.
The mendacious faith or passions arising due to fruition of deluding karmas are, in fact, transformations within the soul and the doer of these is also the soul; deluding karmas being motive cause only. When the deluding karmas are destroyed these changes do not occur. Therefore, we can infer that these changes (falsity and passions) are not intrinsic nature of soul but unnatural attitudes. They are imposed attitudes created by karmas. These attitudes cause bondage of new karmas. Therefore, it is the feelings or sentiments arising due to fruition of deluding karmas that cause bondage of karma.
One gets body, wealth, family, etc. due to fruition of non-vitiating karmas. These are not the cause of karmic bondage. It is the feelings of attachment, aversion, and fondness for them that cause karmic bondage.
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