Science of Reincarnation Toll of Karma

Author(s): B Sriniketan Bhandari
Publisher: B Sriniketan Bhandari

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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
or toxicity and on the other hand milk is a source of nutrition. Food and water relieves someone from hunger and thirst. The point I wish to make is that all these matter-associated items do not require anyone's assistance to produce results. They act independently. This is the reason why Karma particles or actions are matter-associated and have the power to function without anyone's direction. Then this will raise a question, what can a living thing do? This question is specially important because Karma is the only deciding factor. Every living entity has the freedom to perform actions or Karma, but Karma has the complete control to produce the results. Once a life-force has been associated with Karma then the life-force loses its control over the results to be produced by those actions that is directed by Karma.
From above example we can conclude that even food we eat plays an important part in accumulation of Karma. This fact has long been realized and practiced. Food is divided in to three groups:
(1) Tamsik, that means producing excitement to the five senses of human beings. This food thus helps in accumulating bad karmic Particles.
(2) Satvik, that means helping controlling five senses of our body, and