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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. 19. (ii) Vaikriya bandhan karma—means
the set of action-currents determining the connecting links joining the component parts which make up the variable body possessed by the gods.
and the demi-gods. 20. (iii) Aharaka bandhan karma-refers
to the set of action-currents evolving and determining the connecting links joining together the parts of the tiny body which is sent out by the spiritual adepts to distant regions,
as noted in the above. 21. (iv) Taijas bandhan karma-is what
determines the connection between the parts making up the luminous
body. 22. (v) Karman bandhan karma-is what
unites together the karma-pudgal or the materialised energetics of the jiva's own making vehicling on which the soul reducing itself to a subtle unit of energy passes out of the ou
dàrika body of the jiva. 23–32. Now the five bodies oudàrika etc., do not stand separated from one another.
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