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operation of this karma' is artificial, spurious, as well as deceptive e. g., a person enjoys the sweetness of the small quantity of honey applied to the sharp edge of a sword and ultimately meets the tragedy of his tongue being chopped or severely wounded. The enjoyment of carnal pleasures is like the taste of honey-drop. The reactions of this karma produce the sensation of indescribable agony when a person is deeply injured or wounded.
If the soul is interested in pious practices and leads the life of renunciation and self-control, keeps the company of the good and helps the troubled people, it accumulates the Sata Vedniya karma; on the other hand the cruel activities lead to distress producing Asata Vedniya karma, whereby the soul passes its time in deep anguish and agony.
(4) Mohaniya karma is the ring-leader of karmas and causes delusion and perverts the view of self and non-self. It is the root of all miseries. It has been compared to an intoxicant or liquor whereby the drunkard loses all senses and discriminating faculties between right and wrong. This faculty of judging between beneficient and pernicious path is paralysed and so he appears like a spiritually insane and mentally sick fellow. This karma cripples the discriminating faculty of the soul and so the person caught in the cob-web of deceptive objects of the world roams about like a deer running after a mirage in some desert to quench its thirst but to no purpose.
