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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
another point of view.
to note.
between the experiences of the. Oudarik A study from body ( औदारकि शरोर ) and the experiences of the karman body (1). By oudarika ( औदारिक शरीर ) we mean our neural organism which is the vehicle of the sensations, gross in form. While the experiences of the kârman body ( काम्मण शरीर ) is confined within its thought, ideas, desires and will. Here there is an important matter The experiences of the Ouddrika body ( औदारिक ) which follows on the direct presentment of the actual objects, have no interest for us unless they are owned by us i.e. referred to our Own inner nature or karman body (कामेण शरीर). To be conscious that I am experiencing such and such things, the whole of objective experience requires to be viewed as the experience of my inner nature or in other words the objective experience, belonging to the oudarika body (औदारिक शरीर ) must be referred back to and determined by the inner nature; otherwise the experience, being devoid of every subjective reference, will lose all interest for us, and cannot be viewed as my own experience. The outer experience, unless they are referred
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