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THE LAW OF MORAL CAUSATION
· Class 2. is that karma which obscures cognition in an undifferentiated way. Cognition in an undifferentiated way, that is a general cognition ( of a horse for instance ); it is the first stage of all consciousness; if this first activity does not take place, the soul does not know. You see a picture for instance, but you do not go into the details of it; you just know in a general way that it is a picture. The Sanskrit for this general is darshana'. [Fara Ti24.
Class 3: is that karma the result of which is the feeling of either pain or pleasure. Knowledge by itself is not pain nor pleasure, but on account of certain karma in me, I feel pain or pleasure. Experiencing pain or pleasure is different from the consciousness or awareness of pain or pleasure. In consciousness there is no plain or pleasure, though at the time of pain or pleasure there may be consciousness of it. laco.
Class 4. is that kind of karma which obstructs or acts as an obstacle to the formation of right belief and right conduct. Belief (conviction, that it is wrong to kill, for instance. ) is defferent from knowledge. In the worst form of this karma, we believe that which is wrong to be right, and tbat which is right to be wrong. A sub-division of this karma acts also as an obstacle to right conduct. The person does not intend to act in the right way, he does not
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