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2.3 Physiological Karma and Material Body
A part of physiological adhyavasaya directly interacts with cells of the body and regulates the physiological activity. All cell activities, right from the stage of zygote, to growth of structure, formation of organs, parts and various physiological systems, the overall growth and structure, development and maintenance of the body, disorders and malfunctioning of organs and parts, etc are controlled and regulated by physiological karma. These karmas provide a blue print according to which the body is designed and formed. The particular karma responsible for this activity is called body-making karma. These karmas decide the type of body to be made, that is the species-specific body, and all the features of that body
The interaction of physiological adhyavasaya with the brain enables the brain to control the autonomic functions without the involvement of conscious mind. How physiological karma acquires this capability of designing and constructing the body requires the knowledge of doctrine of karma. The physiological karma can be compared to morphogenetic field, the biologists are advocating. Like karma the morphogenetic fields are individual to every organism. These fields are, of course, derived by the organism from karma vargna field in the cosmos. Thus there is a general field existing in the cosmos from which the organisms derive their part and construct their own individual field for personal use. It may be noted that the soul has the central role in construction of individual field; the soul provides the life force without which no life activity is possible.
It is now well established that all living systems emit a weak light current, which is different form sunlight, of some photons called bio photons. These bio photons are supposed to trigger the biochemical reactions and regulate the whole biochemistry in a living system. The bio photons are assumed to originate from a coherent electromagnetic field in broadband of frequencies from infrared to the ultraviolet. This field may act as both sender and receiver of the bio photon that are electro magnetic bio-information used in regulating life processes. Many significant correlations between features of the weak biological light and a number of fundamental biological processes, such as cell division, death, and major shifts in metabolism exist. The bio photon is supposed to be trapped and remitted by DNA. The bio photons can be regarded as general physiological karma and the morphogenetic fields as particular karma fields (sub fields) responsible for design and formation of individual parts, organs and systems.
There are millions of reactions in a cell per second and the bio photons emitted by physiological karma, a coherent field, provide the right quantum of energies at the right place and right time. There are trillions of cells in the body. which apart from individual functioning, must coordinate and regulate their activities to enable the body to function as an integrated whole. One of the 54
Arhat Vacana, 23 (4), 2011
