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KARMA AND OUDARIKA-SARIRA.
back to and determined by our inner nature stands on the same level as other phenomena occuring in Nature. But these states of changes become the source of interest for us as soon as as they are viewed as experiences of the karman body (काम्मैण शरीर ) itself. So our inner experience or the experience of the karman body is not only the outer experience merely condensed and materialised, but it is something more.
It is not another kind of experience to be set by the side of the outer experience, but one which includes the latter and goes beyond it. It is the outer experience itself focussed and referred to and determined by our inner-nature. Hence it follows that they are not two distinct worlds of experience, but ultimately the same, with this distiction only that one is devoid of every subjective reference while the other is not.
Hence (1) if the operation or the activity of the oudarika body (औदारिक शरीर ) when not referred to and determined by the inner nature, standing on the same level as other phenomena of Nature, becomes morally blank, and assume moral quality, only on their refer
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