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RE-BIRTH AND KARMA-SARIRA.
Paryâptas and Apar
of time by the virtue of its ayu-bal, accruing from ayu-karma of which we shall have occasion to speak later on. And these abstract (bhava) pranas or powers develop only yâptas. when the karma-sarira enters a particular organism according to its own karmas. But all the types of organism do not possess the five senses; neither all can speak, nor all have the intellect to think. While dealing with the Fiva in the chapter of categories, we have seen that jivic organisms are classifiable according to the number of the organs of sense they possess. It is important to note by the way that each of these types of organism is again divisible into two sub-classesknown by the names of Paryâpta and Aparyapta. The pary&ptas are six in number, viz., ahar or the seed of life; sarira, or the body; Indriya or the senses, svashochchâsa or breathings, bháså or speech, and mana or mind. The panas and the organs develop as the jiva migrates on and on through the processes of metempscyhoses. It is impossible to exhaust in the short space at disposal, the list of the different types of organism which the karma-sarira takes on,
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