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states, the person generates or adds to his present karma. If, however, the attitude of the mind is one of aloofness, then fresh karma is not generated, he does not then identify himself with the anger for instance, and so does not generate more karmas.
4. Yoga (Activity) : The word yoga has many meanings, but here it has a technical meaning, and means all other activities of body, mind and speech which are not included in the first three forces mentioned, and it is therefore a general name. So that, certain karmas are generated by reason of the physiological activities. .
There are 15 kinds of this cause (yoga).
1. Satya-mano-yoga. Activity of the mind : it may be truthful : it generates a kind of karma.
2. Asatya-mano-yoga. Activity of the mind which implies falsehood.
3. Satya-asatya-miśrana-mano-yoga. A state of mind when you may be thinking of something and that of which you are thinking relates partly to truth and partly to something that is false. It is a mixture of the two previous kinds.
4. Asatya-amrşā-mano-yoga. Activity of the mind which has no reference to truth or falsity, does not relate to truth or falsity at all.
5. to 8. Four kinds of speech activity, namely, the same as those of the thought activity only with regard to speech.
In illustration of speech which does not relate to the subject of truth or falsity, the sentence : "Bring me my watch” is an example.
9 to 15. Seven kinds of bodily activity, namely : Activity of the physical body, activity of the vaikriya body, activity of the āhāraka body, activity of the kärmana body. This last includes the taijasa, because these two bodies (the kärmana and the taijasa) stay with the soul until worked out; they go with the soul at death to the next state of life. Then there are three more, namely bodily activities which are mixtures of the kārmana and taijasa with any few particles of either the audārika, vaikriya, or āhāraka body, before the body is fully
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