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made up of the different kinds of energies known as karma-prakritis, engendered by the operation of the force or forces of different kinds of råga and dvesha, i.e., attraction and repulsion ;
(2) the tai jasa (lit. brilliant) which is composed of electric matter, as already defined;
(3) the audaraka, i.e., the ordinary body of gross matter;
(4) the vaikriyaka, or the body which the residents of heavens and hells possess, and which is ordinarily invisible to our normal vision; and
(5) the ahâraka, which is developed by very advanced munis, and may be projected by them to visit the Tirthamkara if there be one living in a distant land.
Of these, the first two never leave the ego till it enters Nirvana, and the third is also an almost constant companion of the soul in the world of men, though it undergoes modification on account of birth, growth, death and transmigration, from time to time. The fourth takes the place of the audaraka sarîra when the soul is born in heaven or hell, and the last is evolved out only by certain highly advanced Adepts (saints).
The first four of these bodies do not require any further proof, but the fifth one, the ahâraka, rests on the authority of the very saints and munis who have seen it issue forth.
To familiarise the mind with the operation of the Law of Karma, it should be remembered that the kärmâna sarira, which is a constant companion of the soul in all its migratory wanderings in the samsára, including the heavens and hells, is liable to undergo
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