Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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but might be misleading, becase we can stop the inflow and we can work out all the karmas and finally become a liberated soul, which will appear later on).
The impellent force is called in Sanskrit Hetu. It signifies 'the means by which', 'the instrumental cause'.
The Karmas. We have had eight classes of karmas mentioned, with a rough description of their nature or function; and four kinds of causes or impellent forces which are the means of generating the karmas. We now come again to the eight classes of karmas.
Class 1. Knowledge obscuring karma. Certain acts and words and thoughts liave the tendency to retard the faculty of knowing. In what different ways do we know? We must classify the various forms of knowledge, then we can know that those forces which obscure the growth or manifestation of the different form of knowledge, are the very karmas which have been called the first class. The nature of this first class could not be understood unless we understand the different ways in which the function of knowing manisests itself. (There are as many forms of knowledge as there are living beings, as no two persons' knowledge is alike; but still we can classify the kinds.)
The first form of knowledge, which is the basis of all phenomena of consciousness and of all activities