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fore a double function-oxygen being taken in and carbon-di-oxide got rid of by one and the same process.
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COSMOLOGY OLD AND NEW
( जीवानाम्
भवति । )
SUTRA 20. सुख-दुःखजीवितमरणोपग्रहाश्च ॥ २० ॥
SUKHA-DUḤKHA-JĪVITA-MARAŅOPAGRAHĀŚCA. [20] सुख - दुःख - जीवित - मरण-उपग्रहाश्च
पुद्गलानामुपकारो
(Soul experiences pain, pleasure, life and death through the agency of matter.)
Sri Kundakundacārya says:
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कत्ता भोत्ता आदा पोग्गलकम्मस्स होदि ववहारो ।।
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(From the practical point of view, a worldly soul draws in the fine karmic matter in consequence of the activities of mind, body and speech and experiences their results.)
The theory of transmigration of soul has been explained by Jains in terms of karmic matter, extraordinary conception found in no other system of thought. According to this view, all actions of embodied living-beings, whether mental or physical, including speech, are followed by an influx of fine molecules of energy towards the soul, the latter constituting what is called the karmana sartra. (vide page 62 ante) Activity of a good kind attracts meritorious karmic matter while activity of a bad kind attracts the opposite kind of karmic matter, The karmaņa sarıra is the vehicle of transmigration and passes from life to life. The dragging of the soul from one physical body to another is well described by late Mr. J. L. Jaini.**
"It is not fate, nor even predestination: but it is the evercontinuous balancing of the different accounts that we keep with the forces of life. There can be no mistake, no suppression and no evasion. The credit and debit sides go on automatically; and whatever is due to us is paid us ungrudgingly and without demand. The continuity cannot be broken by change of house; the debits of London are not extinguished by going to Berlin: nor is the liquidation suspended till the Day of Judgement. The karmas are not extinguished simply because we give up the body called A. When we
241. Ibid. p. 8.
242. Nivamasara, 18.
243. Outlines of Jainism, p. 29.
