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Karma. Sarira.
forces of its own making, which become metamorphosed as it were into the form of karmaparticles wherein remain stored up in a potential state all the experiences, desires and tendencies which Prof. Huxley sums up by the word Character.'
The experiences and forces of its own, metamorphosed into a material particles, which the Jiva carries with it at the time of its departure from the body wherein it had been encased in a previous birth, and known as the karma-pudgal of the liva-form, according to our sages, the physical basis of a future life. It is also technically called-Karman Sarira of the Jiva which along with the tejas sarira which is also inseparable from it, clings round to the soul until it reaches final liberation. Here again we find another display of the grand truth teaching us of the indestructibility of matter and continuity of motion- Karma.
After shufflng off the gross mortal frame like a pair of old worn-out shoes, the individual soul, taking the form of a subtle unit of energy clothed in the karma-pudgal as explained, instinctively flies off to one or the other of the different grades of sansâr or
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