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IMPELLENT FORCES, THE CAUSES OF KARMAS 115 fomed. Miśra means compound. Audārika is the ordinary physical body.
That makes the causes 57 in number, classed under four heads respectively : 5 mithyātva, 12 avirati, 25 kaṣāya, and 15 yoga. The Order in which these Causes get Removed
In removing these causes of the generation of karma, the mithyātva must be removed first; it is not possible to remove the avirati first, or the kasāya or the yoga. Then the next in order is the avirati, which must be removed before the kaşāya, and the last to be removed is the yoga. So that, in any person, where there is mithyātva there is also lack of control of the thought and senses, there is also the list of 25 kaşāyas, either dormant or operating; and there are the 15 yogas. Intense Karmas can generate immediate Effects
If a person is suffering from dispepsia, he perhaps loses his temper. Here is karna generated at once and manifested at once. We do sometimes generate the karma even now and have the result the next moment. We are, as a matter of fact, generating karma every moment.
The impellent force is called in Sanskrit hetu. It signifies 'the means by which', 'the instrumental cause'.
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