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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pessimist" data-source="post: 25291347" data-attributes="member: 566496">cethana is a cetasika and it's categorized under "sabba citta sadharana cetasika" so by definition every citta has some cetana attached to it. but it's not meaningful to say some effect of karma, a citta that arises as a result of previous karma, is making new karmas because it has the cetana cetasika attached to it.so what "චේතනාව කර්මය වන්නේය" really means is the intensity, whatever that may mean, of a kusala or akusala citta is determined by the doer's cetana (the cetasika). therefore cetana alone is not enough to make either kusala or akusala karma. it should arise with a kusala or akusala citta. as for the effects (karmic results) there are some cittas that never get the chance to produce any results. furthermore the results can depend on many number of factors. for example u cant drown in a desert. </blockquote>

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