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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
the soul which is really non-material. This is nothing else but karmic matter.
There are three acting agents in the mundane soul. They are mind, body and speech. As these three or any of the three are in joint connection everywhere with the soul, so whenever any activity through them happens, there occurs some wavering or vibration in the soul.
At the very time when vibrations occur in the mundane soul, the attractive power called yoga inherent in the soul begins to work. Yoga is a force which attracts karmic matter towards the soul and connects the same with it. This force of yoga attracts karmic molecules which are mixed with the other previously collected molecules in the karmic fine body which is continually coming on with the mundane soul. It should be noted that in this beginningless world phenomena, this mundane soul was never free from this karmic body. It is continually coming on in bondage. Through the fruition of different kinds of karmas in that fine body, there happen birth, death and different kinds of miseries. When any person dies, this karmic body is not left here. It goes with the mundane soul; only outer physicial body is left. The mundane soul going with the karmic body at once takes another birth under the influence of its karmas which are in operation. Old karmic molecules must shed off at the proper time whether they fructify or not from this karmic body and
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