Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
SUTRA 16 ART aurateu: || 9€ | Maya tairyagyonasya (16) Deceiving and misleading others attracts karma that leads to birth(s) in the world of animals and plants. (16)
- Misleading others about our real motives, imparting false infor
mation (deceit) and the desire for cheating - teaching religious beliefs we are not convinced of (any more) - altering religious teachings to suit egoistic motives and propagat
ing these altered teachings - the lack of honest behavior and decency
- a regretful attitude at our time of death attracts karma that leads to birth(s) in bodies without the faculty of mind - i.e. in bodies of animals and plants.
The purpose of the mind (manas) is to understand and communicate how to reach freedom from karmic limitations. The intentional misuse of the mind to deceive others causes a basic malfunctioning of the mechanisms governing this sense-organ.
Since any physical organ 'withers' if we do not exercise its proper purpose, so also the mind 'withers' if we do not use its originally intended function. Yet if we do not activate our mind's intended function, we become incapable of binding the (positive) karma that will support the development of a mind in our next body. Therefore - once we leave our present body - because of the missing 'mindbuilding' karma - only a birth in bodies without mind26 becomes possible.
26 Every being that exists on a non-human level (e.g. in form of an ani
mal), but strives to be born in a human body, needs to acquire a type of quasi-karma' for this purpose. Although the path to karmic freedom is generally characterized by the dissolution and not by the bind