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CHAPTER XXIV.
WILL AND INDIVIDUALITY.
'Karma-Sarira and the Nature of its MigrationWater-Globule and Karma'-Globule-The Vegetable, Seeds and Karma-Sarira in Relation to NatureSelection and its Character-Human Evolution is Essentially Teleological-Humanity always keeps a Goal before itself.
Now it is this 'Karman Sarira', the Character or the inner nature of the individual man that re-incarnates or expresses itself successively in various forms through the repetition of births and deaths. When a man dies, the Karman-Sarira, his character or inner nature, is not disintegrated and dissolved with the death and dissolution of his physical mortal organism, but passes through womb to womb in an invisible form. To draw a comparison with a physical phenomenon, as a water-globule rising from the surging waves ruffling the vast expanse of the ocean passes through various stages of existence sometime in the invisible form of vapoury state in a cloud
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The Charac
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body re
incartes.
