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ence to the inner nature, and if (2) human
The Kárman experience be possible only on this ascription for reference, it follows necessarily that every
body as sug gestive the persistence of per sonality and re-birth.
activity or karma leaves behind an effect either good or bad in the shape of vestiges on the karman body (काण शरोर) - nature or the Character of Prof. Huxley.
-our inner
terms.
Having discussed the relation between the Inner-nature, Kârman body ( शरोर ), and Oudárika body ( श्रदारिक शरोर), or Outer-nature we come to the question of re-birth. So long we discussed the problem of relation in theoretical But the world, we live in, is a moral world, nay, even more, a practically significant world than it is a theoretically definable world. And we may, at once, simply say that the concept of the individual in its primary and original sense is distinctly an ethical concept and that is so whether you speak in theoretical terms or in terms of being. So from this conception of individuality we hope to see to the possibilities of rebirth, not merely as a logical necessity but as that without which the purpose of man's individuality will be altogether balked.
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