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Statement of Six Fundamentals
The third Fundamental states that soul is the Kartä (actuator) of its Karma. This is primarily stated while keeping in mind the worldly state. We happen to get in different situations; some of them are favorable and some unfavorable. We are used to experience a sense of pleasure and happiness with the favorable situations and a sense of pain and unhappiness with the unfavorable ones. In reality, no situation is capable of giving happiness or unhappiness. We are merely used to react to the different situations with the sense of craving or aversion. That reaction results in acquisition of Karma. We ourselves are thus responsible for that bondage.
The fourth Fundamental states that soul bears the consequences. The Karma that the worldly soul acquires stays with it and gives its consequences at the appropriate time. Such consequences arise in the form of various situations such as: kind of species in which they are born, type of body and its surroundings etc. Different situations thus occur from time to time depending upon the type of Karmas that fructify. In those situations the worldly soul reacts with either craving or aversion and thereby it acquires new Karma. The worldly cycle thus continues to operate.
The fifth Fundamental states that there is liberation. It means freedom from the bondage of Karma. Since no situation stays forever, one should accept the given situations as consequences of his own Karma and should bear the same with equanimity without indulging in the sense of likes or dislikes. In that case one would not acquire new Karma. Since old Karmas automatically fall off after their fruition, the soul eventually can become Karmaless. That is the state of liberation, which should be the
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