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soul passes out leaving the body dead, form the very germ of physica! life in future.
The use of the phrase "karma-pudgalkarma-(matter) is singular in our philosophy. All karmas, the other systems of Indian Kayma;
pudgal and Thought, accept unwaveringly the truth and Character. validity of the doctrine of karma-causality and re-births ; but with them karma is amurta-imponderable. None has yet been found to take the word karma in the sense and significance as we find it to have been used in our philosophy. It is true that karma of the Jiva means its past activities or energies—forces of its own making that tend it to be a murderer or a saint in the next life. But the energies or forces, as they are in themselves are formless and as such they cannot act and react on any thing and produce changes in the tendency of the same. Sky, like void space, because of its being formless, cannot affect us. In order to act and re-act and thereby to produce changes in things on which they work, the energies and forces must have to be metamorphosed into forms or centres of forces. So are the cases with Jova's karma—its past-activities or energies--
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