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DOCTRINE OF KARMA
or sufferer. They say, that there is no duality of a doer and his doings, a thinker and his thoughts, an enjoyer and enjoyments. The words doer, thinker, enjoyer, sufferer are mere modes of speech. The realities of our soul-life, according to Buddhism, consist in doings, thoughts, sufferings, enjoyments and aspirations. These actions are called Karma, out of these a man is made, but he has no permanent soul. These Karmas constitute one's personality which is preserved beyond death. The Buddhists maintain that the eye sees, the ear hears, and thoughts think, that all mental and physical actions of an individual produce Sanskaras or subtle forms such as deed-forms, thought-forms etc., which continue to exist even after his death and reproduce similar actions through another body in future, being guider hy the law of causation (Karma). Vedân. on the contrary, admits the existence út a soul entity. The same intelligent and
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