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100 the brain like other specific centers. There seem to be many such center there.
6. The pain has been studied by psychologists and physiologists. However, studies on pleasure are not so voluminous. In fact, pleasure is absence of pain. Thus, many types of stimulii produce the feeling of pleasure. It could be assumed that there could be many pain-inhibiting or pleasure points in our body system. However, the central reticular regions abound in pleasure centers. They work in the same way and produce feelings of pleasure. Just as pain can be reduced or killed by chemical compounds, pleasure can also be induced and improved by many physical and chemical methods. 7. It could be surmised from the above that scientists have researched into the physical causes of pain/pain killing and pleasure/pleasure-inductions, which are verifiable in laboratories. Still the pre-birthial and genetic karma lies at the root of these findings 8. The pleasure-feeling caused due to this karma does not mean absolute pleasure. Also, the feeling-producing karma leads to experience of pleasure or pain with the helping causes of acquisition of desirable or undesirable materials. The gains and loss should not be taken as fruits of merit and demerit as it represents a system. The merit and demerit are based on spiritual rather than physical phenomena. The diseases are also not the fruits of demerit as they occur from different causes of malnutrition etc. Thus, feeling producing karma is the essential cause of feelings rather then acquisitions.
The sub-species bondage of the feeling producing karma has been described. The next aphorism mentions about the twenty eight subspecies of the deluding karma : DARŠANA-CARITRA-MOHANİYA-AKAŞAYA-KAŞAYAVEDANIYAKHYAH TRI-DVI-NAVA-SODASA-BHEDĀH SAMYAKTVA-MITHYATVA-TADUBHAYĀNI-AKAŞAYA-KAŞĀ YAU HĀSYA-RATI-ARATI-SOKA-BHAYA-JUGUPSĀ-STRİPUM-NAPUNSAKA-VEDAH-ANANTĀNUBANDHI-APRATYA KHYĀNA-PRATYĀKHYANA-SANJVALANA-VIKALPĀH-CAEKSAH-KRODHA-MĀNA-MĀYĂ-LOBHĀH. 8.9.
The deluding karma has basically two varieties - (1) faithdeluding and (2) conduct-deluding. The faith deluding sub-species has three varieties- (1) righteousness-deluding (2) wrongfulness-deluding
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