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   This Karma'shaya (actions assuming the shape of desire) can be created in one   
   life or in many lives.  Disease, grief and other deep sorrows are, in this   
   regard, merely seen as the reactions of self-created Sam'ska'ras (potential   
   reactions to past actions)   
   . After reaping such tremendous reactions as a result of the temporary   
   disconnection of the sensory organs, motor organs, Pra'n'endriya (vital   
   energy) and the mind, a new Karma'shaya is created and as a result, tremendous   
   change takes place in the    
   fortunes of human beings.   
      
   In accordance with the Sam'ska'ras (reactive momenta) that are inborn or   
   imposed according to the person's desires, humans have pleasurable or painful   
   experiences or experience both pain and pleasure or do not experience pain and   
   pleasure at all.  If the    
   mind or nerve fibres become relaxed due to congenial vibration resulting from   
   actions, we call that state pleasure and if as a result of the vibration of   
   reaction of the action, the nerve-fibres are pressurised or repressed that is   
   known as the feeling    
   of pain.   
      
   Human beings, by nature, long for pleasure and not pain. The vibration of the   
   actions of human beings which gives the mind a pleasurable experience, is   
   called Shukla Karma, (white deeds) and the vibration which creates a sense of   
   pain in the human mind    
   is termed Krs'n'a Karma (black deeds). And the vibration which creates both   
   pleasurable and painful experiences is called Shuklakrs'n'a karma (black and   
   white deeds). Furthermore that which does not create either pleasurable or   
   painful experience is    
   called Ashuklakrs'n'a karma (neither black nor white).   
      
   Worldly actions are either Shukla (white) or Krs'n'a (black) or Shuklakrs'n'a   
   (black and white). Only an action or reaction related to sama'dhi (absorption   
   in a spiritual stance), that is spiritual practices (Sa'dhana'), can be called   
   Ashuklakrs'n'a    
   karma (neither black nor white). This is because spiritual actions take one   
   beyond the state of pain and pleasure.   
      
   When the vibration of an action remains in 'Va'sana' (desire), then that is   
   known as the seed of reactions. The Sam'ska'ra (reactive momenta) gets   
   destroyed by an actional vibration which is equally powerful and opposite to   
   the original action.   
      
   Every living being having a physical body has a mind. The A'tman or soul is   
   the reflecting plate of the mind. Other things also exist as the objects of   
   the A'tman. As long as the vibration of human existence is reflected in the   
   A'tman, human beings are    
   considered alive. Therefore, Videhii mana (bodiless   
   mind) cannot function at all. The vibration of existence does not arise in the   
   bodiless mind (Videhii mana). The existence of the bodiless mind (Videhii   
   mana) means only Karma'shaya (bundles of Sam'ska'ras or reactive momenta), and   
   this Karma'shaya (mind    
   with reactive momenta only) rests on the spiritual base. This is why the   
   Videhii A'tma (bodiless soul) cannot function as a witness to the action and   
   existence of a Videhii mana (bodiless mind). Only Karma'shaya (ie reactions to   
   actions arising from the    
   shape of desires) then works as a witness in that sense.  Thus it is proper to   
   say: Pratiipam' vipariitam' aincati vija'na'ti iti pratyak."   
      
   As a rule, Karma'shaya (reactions to actions arising from the shape of   
   desires)is continually formed until the moment of death. These are exhausted   
   through Sam'ska'ramu'laka (actions caused by reactive momenta in one's next   
   life). Generally Karma'shaya    
   does not get ripened during a person's life unless there is a disconnection of   
   the sensory organs, motor organs, Pra'n'endriya (vital energy) and mind. Thus   
   one will not experience the reactions of actions during this life. Generally a   
   reaction starts to    
   express itself only after the action that caused it has finished.   
      
   When the football loses its power to rise up in the air, at that moment it   
   starts falling down. In the same way an action gradually starts to rebound in   
   Va'sana'bha'n'da' (the pot of desires), and from that moment it takes the form   
   of reaction. Because    
   of this, one can see the fruits of reactions of actions of one's life in   
   various fields of activities. Ordinarily, the accumulated results of the   
   actions of one's life get ripened (as potential reactions [compared to the   
   actual actions]) at the time of    
   death as a result of the dissociation of the sensory organs, motor organs,   
   Pra'n'endriya (vital energy) and the mind, and they take the form of reactions   
   in the next life. While the enjoyment of the reaction in the next life is very   
   natural, human beings    
   forget the original action. Since they cannot see the original Karma/action,   
   they blame God for their fate.   
      
   Hence we sometimes see that a person who has been doing only virtuous deeds in   
   this life for a long time still suffers as a result of previous sam'ska'ras   
   (reactive momenta or potential reactions to past actions). For the same   
   reason, some people who are    
   engaged in wicked deeds enjoy abundant pleasure. When a person experiences the   
   reactions caused by actions in his or her previous life so that they are not   
   able to see the original action, it is known as "Adras'ta-Vedaniiya Karma", or   
   in short as Adrs't'   
   a (fate).   
      
   When mind is temporarily detached from the sensory organs, motor organs and   
   Pra'n'endriya (vital energy) due to suffering from a serious disease,   
   bereavement, fainting, etc, or conversely due to association with a great   
   person so that the Kula-kun'da'   
   linii (latent spiritual force) in awakened, then the Karma'shaya (reactions to   
   actions from desires) ripens and the reactions of one's past life start to   
   express themselves. This kind of karma   
   (action) is known as Drs't'a Vedaniiya Karma, in which both good and bad deeds   
   as well as, their good and bad results also get expressed in this life. If a   
   liar, a fraud, one who takes bribes, or a corrupt politician happens to reap   
   the consequences of    
   their bad actions in this life, whether they admit it or not, they will have   
   to realise in their mind that they are being punished for their falsehood,   
   fraudulence and political hypocrisy. All these are Dris't'a Vedaniiya Karma.   
      
   Likewise people can also enjoy the fruits of their actions in this life.   
   Generally we reap the fruits of our actions as per the deeds of the past life.   
   So, to reap the consequences of actions of the present life is not quite   
   natural, though it is also    
   not unnatural. Generally one does not reap the consequences of the actions of   
   this life in this life itself. If the accumulated Sam'ska'ras (reactive   
   momenta) of this life are almost similar to the Karma'shaya (reactions stored   
   from desires) of the past    
   life, that is, if the actional vibrations of both the lives are the same,   
   there the experiencing of the reactions of both lives takes place   
   simultaneously.   
      
   However, if the vibrations of the actions of this life are opposite or   
   different, in that case the reaping of the consequences of both lives does not   
   proceed simultaneously. In that case, one will reap the consequences of the   
   actions of the previous life.   
    The new actions of this life take on a new mould, a new Karma'shaya (actions   
   assuming the shape of desire to become reactions), and when mixed with the   
   Karma'shaya of the previous life, create a new Karmasha'ya, yet again.  Hence   
   the Karma'shaya varies    
   from person to person.   
      
      
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