Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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KARMA PEILOSOPHY
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names of the previous stages are given below.) This last stage manifests in the form of the continuance for a certain length of time of the new knowledge. It may also manifest itself in the form which results in only certain impressions made on our consciousness-on account of the impressions the life of the individual is so changed that the activities will in future be different. And a third way in which the last stage of the process of mutijnana manifests itself is that the thing (the thing newly known) can be remembered-it is memory. Memory, as a faculty, is the last result of the activities, which are classed under mutijnana or the first form of knowledge.
All, except the first stage of these five stages of the process, are the activities of the mind (manas).
The obscuring karına being removed, the quality of the soul called memory is able to manifest itself.
Any activity of the irdividual which lessens the capacity of the organs of sensation or of the mind to pass through any cf these stages, is knowledge obscuring karma, and each person must discover these karmas or activities for himself, otherwise he does not kuow what the karnas are, simply to tell him that there are knowledge obscuring karmas is to tell him nothiog. The names of the above mentioned stages are:
1. Vyanjana avagraha 2. Artha avagraha