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freedom longing
Fig. 4.1
Fig. 4.2
CYCLES OF BIRTH AND DEATH
0 0
bliss
defiled
energy
→obstructed
knowledge
obscured
perception →→→→→ obscured
e+f+g+h
soul
State of a soul at a fixed point in time with its elements and the effect of karmic matter.
d
b
a2
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O
embodiment
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Eight karmic components of karmic matter on a contaminated soul with the hierarchy of karmic components-the outer are more active than the inner.
allows other components to operate. In fact, the component-b is influenced by the existence of this defiling process. Figure 4.1 illustrates the static aspect of the interaction. Figure. 4.2 shows the hierarchic influence of these components on the soul, so that the karmic components in the outer rectangles are more active at every instant than those in the inner rectangles, e.g. the a, -component and a2-component are more active than the b-component and so on, whereas the components e, f, g and h operate slowly. (We can
