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Bodies differ
ferences Karma.
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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. You must take steps to liberate the right
kind of karmic-force at the exact instant from the dif- that you wish the union to take place.
You then get the chemical properties wanted ; otherwise you would not. And the reason for this is that the particular karma, having a peculiar vibratory current is not common ; and under other circumstances than those named, you cannot effectuate the metamorphosis.
It is thus pretty clear that atoms which differently arrange themselves and combine into new forms and compounds must be previously possessed of certain karmic forces having a peculiar tendency of distributing and arranging themselves in a definite order which gives constitution to the compound. But this distribution and arrangement of atoms is nothing more than a kind of permutation and combination speaking for the particular character and configuration of the composite body it makes. Bodies, we see, differ from one another : and the difference, it is evident also, is due, as we have seen elsewhere, to the difference in the
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