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karmas as shown in Table 3 below which may be taken as an overall increase in religiosity. It could be easily guessed that if the scientific researches could lead to increase in the karmic destruction-cumsubsidence, they could also have the way to their total destruction also leading to happinesss - the ultimate goal of life. Table 3 : Increase in Destruction-cum-subsidence of Karmas :
Increase in Overall Religiosity
S. No.
Karma
Destruction-cum-subsidence effects
Knowledge obscuring
Widening the horizons of knowledge (agriculture, biology, astronomy, medicine, cosmology, synthesis of cells and natural products, para-sensual perception, telepathy, thoughttransmission, yogic powers and clairvoyance etc.)
Conation obscuring
Widening the horizons of senses and internal vision through the development of fine or electron microscopes, telescopes, measuring instruments.
Feeling producing
Increase in comfort equipments like land of enjoyment, probablity of labourless life, increase in socialistic trends, longevity, International compassion towards natural or accidental calamities.
Deluding karma
Socialisational definition of religion, Divided family and family planning, Increase in religious rituals and monkhood.
Life-span karma
Increase in longevity, geometrical progressional increase in human population.
Statusdetermining
Political mutation of scheduled castes/tribes, Reservation in education and services, manifold opportunities for higher status due to the variety of professional openings.
Physiquemaking karma
Increase in population of rare human destinity, transplantation of organs, development of psychosomatic and psychological sciences, increase in physical and mental capacities of human beings.
8.
Obstructive karma
Removal of manifold obstructions in the development of individuals and society, religious leaders.
19. The primary species of karmas, in general, thus, have widened their area from religion to sciences and from individual to groups, nations and universe. Though their base on past and build on future may not be verifiable by the scientists, but their cause-effectism and their
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