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bondages of limitations, through Karma, as we have seen before. This becomes its exclusive interest. The love for particular mode of living i,e. the mode in which the liberation can easily be achieved, becomes the exclusive interest for the man and tends to individualise him. This exclusive love for this state of autonomy or self-rule, which no body can attain just in the way open to him, tends to individuate his activities and conduct, as well as the outer organism the oudarika body ( श्रदारिक शरीर ), by means of which actions conducive to the self-rule or autonomy are performed. Thus we may say that though the karman body ( का या शरीर ) may resemble others of the same kind in types universal in character, still, considered as individualised that is in the sense we have expounded above, they are quite distinct and separate entities. Individuals they are and must be, for all have exclusive interest for the attainment of that state of autonomy, of bliss and beatitude which is
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