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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
Once we actively orient towards growth, we become able to intuitively recognize error. We now automatically identify flaws, inaccuracies and misunderstandings introduced by our senses, teachers, during our study of external knowledge or in clairvoyant perceptions and can bar their influence on us.
Intuitive orientation towards growth is a natural feature of our consciousness. It can manifest in all living beings who possess a mind and are able to reach enlightenment. It arises automatically when karma that obstructs this ability dissolves or becomes inactive - this is the inner cause. Externally it manifests (after the respective karmas are gone) either spontaneouslyll without outside help, or when triggered by external factors (e.g. the help of a teacher or by reading about the expansion of consciousness).
Karma that hinders or stops us to direct our life towards expansion, manifests e.g. as indifference towards the true mechanisms of this world, as disinterest in the development of our potential abilities and in the inability to distinguish which of our actions produce positive or negative effects.
Directing our action towards freedom from all karmic restrictions
Karma that hinders us to focus activities on freeing our life from karmic restrictions, manifests in form of anger, pride, as the intention to deceive others and greed. These four negative passionate emotions cause powerful egoistic tendencies that strongly reject every expanding point of view. - Anger projects our own point of view so energetically into our
environment that we become incapable of receiving new information or even of accepting our own critical inner voice. Each
11 This can be triggered e.g. by the presence of those closer to freedom
from all karmic limitations; by sudden intense recollection of earlier lives; through the experience of great pain or intense love and by the attempt to comprehend the world from the perspective of the tirthankaras - the universal teachers who teach from the state of omniscience.
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