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is to say when the exercise of the different faculties of the person are preceded by certain impellent forces, or in other words, when by reason of certain impellent forces in him, a person says something or does something or thinks something, then he generates the karma
These impellent forces are not the cause, because the cause is the person bimself. The circumstantial causes are the instrumental causes, and these are bis im pellent forces. There are four kinds, namely, as follows:
1. Delusion. When a person is in that condition and does, thinks, or says something, then he generates karma. For instance, by way of illustration, when a man does not examine the belief into which he is born, as to its merits or demerits. Also doubts come under this heading. Again, when a man knows or believes that his doctrines are wrong and still preaches them, he generates a bad karma. Again, the state of delusion here meant is found in those living beings in whom right belief does not exist, they, having formed no right or wrong beliefs ; it is a state of the lack of development. Lack of development is injurious. The sanskrit name of this first impellent force by reason of which, the karma is generated is Mithyatya. (Mithyâ means wrong; and eva means 'ness'.)
2. Lack of control over the senses and over the mental activities. The senses (taste, sight, etc.)
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