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of this looked up or potential energy in the form of the Karmana body that can account for all the possibilities of diversities and changes in the phenomena of nature. Physical environment is the resultant of the permutation and combina tion which is going on every moment in the atomic world. This gives rise to organic and inorganic matter. Human body comprises both. The modern Science of Biology has shown how human body has gradually evolved out of the primitive protoplasm. The Jiva encaged in the body is there according to the inexorable law of Karma which works out in innumerable way; therefore the Karmic energy of every Jiva is different from that of the rest. There are, in addition, other differences in human bodies. No two human bodies, even of twin brothers or sisters, are alike either in character, behaviour or configuration (Rati, Gati and Murti ). These individual difforences-this individuation-the Jain philosophy says, are brought about by the Aghati Karma of the Jiva. Now we come to the classification of the Aghati Karma. The main divisions are four : Ayu, Nama, Gotra and Vedaniya. The Ayu Karma has four sub-divisions. They are one hundred and three in number. According to some the number is ninety three. The difference of ten relates to sub-divisions which is of no great significance. Substantially the classification remains the same. The Gotra Karma divides itself into two distinct sets of action currents, while the last, the Vedaniya Karma, also has got two subdivisions. Thus we have in all one hundred and eleven or one hundred and one sorts of Aghati Karmas. The total numbering of the subdivisions of tho Ghati and Aghati together is therefore one hundred and fifty-eight or one hundred and forty-eight according as we adopt one method or the other. Each kind of Karma has its pre destined limits within which it must take effect and thereby be purged off. The totality of Karma amalgamated by a soul impresses on it a transcedental colour, a kind of complexion which cannot be perceived by our eyes and this is called.
