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SUTRAS
TEXT OF THE SUTRAS (1)
(5) With our five senses, four negative passionate emotions, indifference to the Five Freedoms and by 25 types of activities we attract karma that prolongs our cycle of incarnations (samparayika).
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(6) Two persons may perform the same physical action, but experience different karmic effects.
These differences are caused
by the intensity with which each of them desired or planned the act
whether they performed the action with or without intention (e. g. through negligence etc.)
whether they initiated the action or were prompted to act by outside influences (the origin - adhikarana)
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- by the amount of energy and the ability each of them committed to the act.
(7) How karma manifests depends on whether the impulse for that activity
- originated within our consciousness (jiva) or
- was presented by our environment (by the ajiva-elements outside our consciousness).
(8) The karmic effects of actions originating within our consciousness are shaped by the following factors:
Whether we
- only decide to act
- actually prepare for the action (e.g. by collecting materials etc.)
or
- physically begin with the action.
Whether
we ourselves carry out the act
others carry out the act as a result of our instigation or
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