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to be explained-impellent forces on account of the presence of which we generate the karma.
Darshana—the state where there is undifferentiated knowledge, formless knowledge ; the limitations and boundaries are not fixed and you only know the thing as belonging to a class and not individualized.
SECOND LECTURE. In giving the doctrine of karma, the first thing to do is to classify the phenomena and then give the theory explaining the phenomena.
The function, nature, or action of each class of karma is quite different.
Class 1. is that karma the function of which is to obscure the knowing faculty, or to retard the development of the knowing faculty. There are words and thoughts, the tendency of which is to retard knowing. Karma is a peculiar force which we generate and the result of which ultimately acts on our individuality. In Sanskrit, this class of karma is called Gnânâvaraniya karma. (In Sanskrit the letter 'a' is pronounced like the letter 'u' in the word 'but. And the letter â is pronounced like the lettera' in the word 'calm'.)
Class 2. is that karma which obscures the general perceiving faculty. It is called Darslaná. varaniya karma.
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