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necessary that the spirit “ leave heaven or hell and return to corporeal existence." Not only are bad Karman (acts ) punished but the good ones rewarded ; not only have we to suffer the evil result of our acts, but also we have to enjoy the good fruit of our meritorious acts, thus under all cases it is ne. cessary to be born i. e. to take up corporea) form. If the sum-total of our good acts predominates over our bad acts, after death we shall be transferred to a higher stage, if the. contrary predominates to a lower stage. As Monier-Williams puts it. Thus it.( spirit ) has to pass through innumerable bodies migrating into higher intermediate or lower forms, froin a god to a demon, man, animal or plant or even a stone according to its various shades of merit or denierit. Thus we see that even the gods themselves were not above this inexhorable law of cause and effect.'
Here we may mention the eight divisions into which Jainism divides Karwan, four of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
