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and deformed limbs and extremities and
others with such and such complexion adding tion through beauty and lustre to its constitution which is the action currents of liked by all, while others are born with such non-injury.
physical organismis as are highly loathsome ? Some are born to such and such parents in such and such family in such and such race and in such such place and walk and move with such traits and gaits in depertments and motions that all these taken together make up their respective individuality for which we are constrained to designate one as Mr So-and-so, son of Mr. so-and-so. of such caste, family, and the like. The Naturalistic hypothesis with all its vaunted principles of adaptation to the environment and transmission of the acquired qualities to the offspring fails to explain the causes and conditions which determine the physique and physical environment which mark out a parti. cular infant from amongst many others. But our sages explaiu by attributing the same to the aghatin Karma--the “ action-currents of non-injury”. It is these currents of action that determine the physical constitution and the environment which gives the Jiva its
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