________________
The Kárman body as suggestive of the persist
sonality and re-birth.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. ence to the inner nature, and if (2) human
experience be possible only on this ascription
Ef or reference, it follows necessarily that every ence of per- activity or karma leaves behind an effect
either good or bad in the shape of vestiges on the karman body (FT*T ATT)—our inner nature or the Character of Prof. Huxley.
Having discussed the relation between the Inner-nature, Kârman body ( o TT ), and Oudârika body (feifton TT), or Outer-nature we come to the question of re-birth. So long we discussed the problem of relation in theoretical terms. But the world, we live in, is a moral world, nay, even more, a practically significant world than it is a theoretically definable world. And we may, at once, simply say that the concept of the individual in its primary and original sense is distinctly an ethical concept and that is so whether you speak in theoretical terms or in terms of being. So from this conception of individuality we hope to see to the possibilities of rebirth, not merely as a logical necessity but as that without which the purpose of man's individuality will be altogether balked.
342
