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Conscious selection by the Karman body.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. or changes into snow, ice or descend in rains to mingle again with the ocean from which it sprang : so the karma-globule, for it is indeed as subtle as can be imagined -springing up as it does in the beginningless past from the vast expanse of the eternal ocean of verities, persists in its career, sometimes remaining invisible to our mortal eyes, at other times expressing itself through the gross material frames of living beings and organisms, whirling through a succession of births and deaths according to the merits and demerits of its past desires and deeds moulding the inner nature in its subsequent career.
The thought, will, organic want or desire moulding the inner nature or 'character' of an organism has a power of selection ; for, thinking and willing consist in determining and selecting an alternative, and the subtle organism determines and selects only that alternative which is favourable to the manifestation of its character and the realization of its wants and desires. The process may best be illustrated by taking two seeds, say one of mangoe and
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