Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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RE-INCARNATION.
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us an organism, but only a centre-less, will-less product of matter, and would again bring us face to face with the old problem, viz., how came this part itself to be endowed with individuality? Besides, the process can account for the form of the body, at best, but not for the mental faculties and the element of choice. It is thus evident that the theory of heredity is utterly insufficient to meet the situation, and it is certain that the power which builds the physical organism is a pre-existing nucleus of force independent of the ovum and the spermatozoon both. This nucleus of creative, that is to say, form-making, energy is bound up in a subtle and invisible body of matter, called the karmana sarîra (the body of karinas) because of its being the repository of the effects of the past karmas of the soul, and is the root-cause of the differences of form and conditions amongst all kinds of living beings in the universe. Thus the 'seed' of life, i.e., the soul, does not originate in the body of its male or female parent, but utilises its mother's womb as a portal of ingress into the world. As regards the selection of the 'womb,' that also depends on the past karmas of the individual, since it is determined by the magnetic properties or chemical affinity residing in the inner bodies of the soul. It is, therefore, correct to say that the soul is the maker of its body itself.
That these are not purely oriental speculations, but truths based on sound reason, may be shown by a single quotation from Schopenhauer* (The World as Will and Idea, Vol. II. page 485):--
"Who makes the chicken in the egg? Some power and skill * See also pp. 252-230 of “The Fourfold Root and Will in Nature."