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and the resultant emotions - pleasure, pain, love, hatred, and so on - experienced by the soul are called psychic karma. The relationship between the material and psychic karma is that of cause and effect. The material karma gives rise to the feeling and emotion in living beings, which in turn give rise to psychic karma, causing emotional modifications within the soul. These emotions, yet again, result in inflow of fresh material karma. They are the material carrier of a soul's desire to physically experience this world. The karma fluent pervades the whole universe and has a tendency to modify the future of a living being by entering into it and creating effects of merits and demerits.
The soul cannot exist in the world without karma and there cannot be karmic bondage without the existence of soul. The karma's power of producing fruit ceases after the fruit has been produced. The karmas have effect only when they are bound to the consciousness. Soul contaminated by karma substances, loses its powers according to the intensity of the coverage by karma particles. Karma makes consciousness to act within the material context of the universe creating deformation in the very dispositional activities and behaviour of the soul keeping him bond or dependent in eight ways according to their effects on the potency of the soul, i.e. impending its perception, knowledge and energy and bringing about delusion, physical and mental circumstances, longevity, spiritual potential and experience of pleasant and unpleasant sensations.
The karmas are attracted to the consciousness by individually or combination of the instrumentality, process, modality and motivation pertaining to action:
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