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CHAPTER XXII. KARMA-SARIRA AND OUDARIKA-SARIRA.
Relations between the 'Karma' and the 'Oudarika – Stages of development-Karman' produces the Oudarika — Oudarika' produces Karma'--Not Identical but Two distinct Entities -Co-existence Inexplicable - Then no Inter-action possible Relation of Concomitant Variation-Difficulties of ParallelismThe 'Karman' body and the Oudarika' stand to each other in Relation of Intermutation,
We shall now discuss the relation between the Karma body including Tejas, or the ‘inner nature' and the Oudarika body or the outer nature of man. And as it is the question. a stumbling block for the beginners, it deserves a careful consideration. Without asserting any thing dogmatically, we shall only discuss every possible hypothesis which can be framed with regard to this relation and show that, for the contradictions involved therein, none of them appears to be rationally tenable save and except the posi tion held by our sages. Our procedure here, therefore, will be more or less dialectical i.e. we should point out poverty of each
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