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Exposition of the principle.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. attainment of bliss and beatitude, as the case may be, according to its karma in a previous birth.
To enter a bit more into details : we have stated before that there is some 'superphysical' power in every living body, by the presence of which the body is enabled to respond, if suitably influenced. Responsiveness, here, forms a predominating phenomenon of life, and death of the body means the departure of the 'super-physical' power, called atman-Jiva (soul)—from the living body after which it can no longer respond to any stimulus.
At the time of death, when this soul or the super-physical' power shuffles off its mortal coil, it passes out assuming the form of a subtle unit of energy clothing itself, as it does, in a subtle body as its vehicle which is built out of the fine karma-matter-the crystalised particles of the soul's past experiences and unfulfilled desires etc. with which it happens to pass out. According to our philosophy, these fine karma-matters or the crysta lised particles of past experiences and unfulfilled desires, embodied in which the
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