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________________ CHAPTER XXIV. WILL AND INDIVIDUALITY Karma-Sarira' and the Nature of its MigrationWater-Globule and 'Karma Globule-The Vegetable, Seeds and Karma-Sarira' in Relation to NatureSelection and its Character-Human Evolution is Essentially Teleological-Humanity always keeps a Goal before itself. The Charac a body re incartes. Now it is this "Karman Sarira', the Character or the inner nature of the indivi. dual man that re-incarnates or expresses itself successively in various forms through tor: the Kår man the repetition of births and deaths. When a man dies, the Karman-Sarira, his character or inner nature, is not disintegrated and dissolved with the death and dissolution of his physical mortal organism, but passes through womb to womb in an invisible form. To draw a comparison avith a physical phenomenon, as a water-globule rising from the surging waves rufting the vast expanse of the ocean passes through various stages of existence sometime in the invisible form of vapoury state in a cloud 359
SR No.011043
Book TitleEncyclopaedia Of Jainism
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorP C Nahar, K C Ghosh
PublisherSatguru Publications
Publication Year1996
Total Pages848
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size13 MB
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