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the opportunity to attain right faith; (12) how the path leading to liberation is well set out and enlightened by the omniscient Lord.
Five types of right conduct: They are sămayikacaritra (to remain in the state of equanimity, giving up all impure activity), etc.
The monk is more qualified than the layman for the practice of these means for the stoppage of karmic inflow. A layman who has taken twelve vows and is endowed with right faith can very well undertake the practice.
These means can stop the inflow of karmic matter. But what will you do to dissociate the karmic matter already bound to the soul? This we shall consider in the next lesson.
LESSON 12 PARTIAL
DISSOCIATION OF THE BOUND KARMIC MATTER It is again the power of soul that causes the partial dissociation of karmic matter clung to the soul.
The partial dissociation of the bound karmic matter is regarded as the external partial dissociation, while the partial elimination destruction of the unwholesome states (feelings, passions) of the soul is regarded as the internal partial dissociation; the latter is the cause of the former.
Again, the partial dissociation is of two types, viz. involuntary and voluntary.
1. Involuntary Partial Dissociation: The karmic matter gets automatically dissociated as soon as it rises and gives its fruits. As this dissociation is automatic and hence involuntary, the soul, at that time, continues to have perverse states and as a result continues to bind
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