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migrates out with the po
the organs of its future body.
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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
according to the ideas and desires registered The Jiva migrates out on it. In fact, it shows to our wonder tentialities of and admiration how could the Jain sages
amass in that ancient time such wealth of biological informations on morphological variations of organisms.
But to return to the direct subject matter : Prior to its migrating from the ouddrika body or the gross physical frame, the jiva fixes its gati or the particular abode, and actually migrates out with the potentialities of devoloping these pränas and the organs. But these are devoloped as necessity arises for the formation of the particular new organism it is going to enter into. And the developments are quite in keeping with its previous karma and take place subsequent to its entering into the new body as determined.
Thus we see the karma-sarira of a jiva, as explained in the Jaina philosophy, is simply a kind of organism born of its own experiences i.e. energies and forces of its own making which become materialised, as it were, into karma-pudgal or karma-matter enveloped in which the individual soul, reducing itself into a unit of energy, passes out.
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