Karma Philosophy

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

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There will be a time in the future, when the soul is without karma ; and once without it will always thereafter henceforth be without, perfect and liberated.
In every activity of a living being in the embodied state, there are two sides, an objective and a subjective side. In the activity of sensation, there are the two sides, the objective side and the subjective side (internal side), the objective organs of sensation (eyes, nose, etc.), and the subjective organs of sensation, each having many subdivisions.
When consciousness is only re-presenting something to itself or comparing ideas, then another instrument has to be used, and this is manas' (mind), and it is only found in living beings having five organs of sensation. (As before mentioned, this doctrine of karma applies to all living beings, and not merely to man.) The mind has also two sides, objective and subjective.
All knowledge itself has two aspects or points of view, namely the right and the wrong. One person forms a judgment, perhaps, about another person, and it is a wrong judgment. And until we get the habit or the ability of assuming the right attitude, we cannot form right judgments.
With reference to the first form of knowledge, or mutijnâna, we now come to the different stages of this form of knowledge ; the process.