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past at the head and fetters of the future at the feet so that it is always in tension to move and act independently for his prosperous and model life. It is worth thinking that the living must be assumed free of these tensions and allowed to live and grow under natural sequences. How the living could obtain religious happiness under these tensions in the present until he could decry it for the future event. This has been the problem with the common man who has been unable to follow the sermons of the seers and, therefore, always been branded as demoralized. Deeper the sermons went, shallower the living became. They meant not for the present but for future: To turn the situation for betterment, let us think of the present first. If we are able to improve it morally, the future will automatically improve. As you sow, so you will reap.
Since the moment of conception to the birth in the world, the living is subject to various conditions, environment, passions, emotions and actions even of parents. He comes equipped with physical, vocal and mental faculties and a complete mechanism for its sustenance and energy. He is affected by them and acts accordingly. There can be no life without direct or indirect activity. It is an expression of the inherent energy of the living. It is a continuous process. Various activities are described in literature of different ages in terms of modificational and virbrational aspects." We have activities associated with the living, non-living and with both. Uttarādhyayana 32 mentions 13 such activities while Umāsvāti 33 states 25; Akalanka 34 mentions 17 sinful activities involving body, speech, mind and passion, which could be condensed to 5 in another way. Most of these activities are manifestations of five evils and four passions. These are caused by material body, speech and mind. Thus, any activity leads to vibrations in the surrounding capable of attracting karma particles towards the living in proportion to the nature and intensity of vibration. Thus, the first cause of karma coming to attachment with the living is the activity of the living.
The basic question is why the activity takes place at all? The three action agencies work because of certain stimulations, emotions, passions and desires originated internally or externally through the sensory or motor agencies. These may be pleasing or displeasing.
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