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atomic particles, in the cosmos. The three mass less vargņā of our particular interest are
1. Tejas (Luminous) vargņā. This vargņā constitutes the prana body of
organisms. 2. Mano (Mind) vargņā. This vargnā constitutes the conscious mind of
organism. 3. Karman vargnā. This vargna constitutes the karma body of organisms.
The vargnās can be compared to Morphic fields of Rupert Sheldrake. Each type of vargņā makes up a specific type of field having a particular application. For each field there is a wide range of frequency and for each frequency the charge of paramānu can vary over a wide range. The above three vargnās constitute the subtle body of living organisms. 2. Interactions between Bodies 2.1 Karma body
The karma body is made of karman vargnā. The process of formation of karma is the most important phenomenon in the life of an organism. Each and every organism in this universe, from the most under developed organism like virus (or even smaller organisms that may exist) to the highly developed organism like human beings, has a karma body. The karma body is a dynamic structure having a regular input of karma vargna and exit of karma, which have matured. The inflow of karman vargņā is caused by resonance phenomena. The soul experiences vibrations due to activity involving attachment and aversion attributes. The attachment and aversion attributes are in a way related to the instinctual desires and needs like food, fear, sex, possessiveness, anger, ego, deceit and greed in all organisms and also to the thought activity in higher organisms. The vibrations depend on the type of activity, each activity is associated with a particular kind of vibration having a definite frequency and intensity, the intensity is related to the intensity of action. The vibration in the soul (non-physical) induces vibrations in the karma body, which experiences vibrations of the same type that is the karma body vibrates at a particular frequency. The vibrating karma body attracts karman vargnas of the same frequency from the cosmos due to the phenomenon of resonance. These incoming vargnās get bonded with the similar karma present in the karma body due to the force of activities of body, speech and mind and the passions that originated vibrations in the soul. Thus new karmas are formed in the karma body. These karmas are of various kinds depending on the nature of the source activity but here we limit to two broad categories of karma, the psychical karma and the physiological karma, which fundamentally differ in their characteristic. The psychical karmas impose limits on the powers of the soul so that an inherently infinitely powerful soul explicitly experiences only a tiny fraction of his power
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