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Atman and Mokná
migrates to other new body. S'amkara does not believe in this. He simply remarks "The subtle part of the elements can moreover easily be procured anywhere; for wherever a new body is to be originated they are present, and the soul's taking them with itself would therefore, be useless. Hence, we conclude that the soul when going is not enveloped by them.”1
S'aṁkara admits the doctrine of Karma as a real thing but only it is real on the phenomenal plane. It is not the real principle like the Brahman. So long as one does not acquire the perfect knowledge of the Brahman (4317), one believes in the reality of the body, mind, intellect and the Karma, i.e., the effects of his actions. At the death of a person the gross body (ate, fratrogena) dissolves; it perishes along with its external sense organs and their functions which are known as the Vșttis and are separate from them remain behind in the soul. Paul Deussen says "Just as the soul carries with it the seed of the body itself in the form of the 'subtle body' (ui TRA). How these subtle parts are related to the coarse elements in it is not further explained. The subtle body formed of them is material (agram) but transparent (FTESTA); therefore, it is not seen at the withdrawal of the soul. On it depends animal heat; the corpse grows cold because the subtle body has left it to accompany the soul on its wanderings along with the other organs.''? Thus, the subtle body
Samkara (Com.) on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 3.1.1, Vol. II, p. 102.
a Deussen Paul : The System of Vedānta, p. 470.
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |