Four types of Karma

"The aspirant for Moksha ( liberation ), who has firmly grasped the principles of Karma, can truly control his self and acquire, in the words of the Upanishad, the competence of being the ' master of his self '.

Definition Of Karma

Continuous activities of the mind, the sense-organs, the organs of action and the vital forces of the body, e.g. cognition, volition, maintenance of body etc., which bring about their mutations are called Karma.

According as it gives us pleasure or pain, Karma is divided into four kinds :

( a ) white

( b ) black

( c ) white-and-black and

( d ) neither white nor black.

Karma that begets happiness is white;

- that which produces pain is black;

- that which gives us both happiness and misery is white-and-black,

- and that which leads to neither happiness nor sorrow is neither white nor black".

From THE DOCTRINE OF KARMA

by

Samkhya-yogacharya Swami Hariharananda Aranya